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Articles of the author Mona Abaza
Three Travelling Plaques Become Four in Mohamed Mahmoud Street
This article should be read as the continuation of a series I wrote for Jadaliyya on art and the Egyptian revolution, the most recent of which was posted on 25 January 2013 and entitled “The Dramaturgy of a Street Corner”. For the past three years, (...)

16 - 07 - 2014
Intimidation and Resistance: Imagining Gender in Cairene Graffiti
The issue of women's empowerment continues to be of paramount significance in determining the future of the incomplete Arab revolutions. Numerous scholars, activists, and feminists have commented with concern about the precarious position of women (...)

02 - 07 - 2013
Breaking down walls: Reflections on downtown's military barricades
A few weeks ago in October, while I was undertaking my ritual stroll through Cairo's Mohamed Mohmoud Street in search of the ever-changing graffiti, I witnessed a conglomeration of young female students (between 14 and 17 years old) from the Lycee (...)

08 - 11 - 2012
On whitening Egypt's walls, time and again
The obsession with whitening walls persists all over the city. On 21 May, as I was, by coincidence, or perhaps by ritual, passing in front of the murals of Mohammed Mahmoud Street, I found out that some officials of the city governorate have (...)

21 - 05 - 2012
Great walls of Cairo: The politics of segregation
The Qasr Al-Aini cement barricade. Half of it was pulled down last month by protesters, while a roughly one-metre-high solid cement-block wall still remains. The scene is surreal. The adjacent barricade that blocks Sheikh Rehan Street remains in (...)

02 - 05 - 2012
The banality of evil: Thinking Hannah Arendt in Cairo
In my last article for Ahram Online, I had expressed concern about growing xenophobia. But last Sunday's tragic massacre of Coptic demonstrators triggered even bleaker thoughts, this time about populist mass behaviour and fascist tendencies. We are (...)

15 - 10 - 2011
Academic tourists sight-seeing the Arab Spring
I would like to share with this short piece a concern that several of us in academia in Cairo have been facing with the impact of the Arab Spring, to point to some frustrations regarding the continuing unequal academic relationship between so-called (...)

26 - 09 - 2011
On Cairo's urban space wars
Time and again, I am compelled to write about the continuing space wars and metamorphosing urban life in Cairo. It is no news that Cairo has been witnessing the most tumultuous and fascinating moments and struggles over the conquest of spaces, of (...)

17 - 09 - 2011
Art, subcultures and the reinvention of public space in Egypt
Doubt is widespread on how long the present transitional phase will last and whether it ought to be still perceived as a transitional phase. Many think that we are just at the beginning of a much longer and complex process, of an incomplete (...)

24 - 07 - 2011
Art, subcultures and the reinvention of public space
Doubt is widespread on how long the present transitional phase will last and whether it ought to be still perceived as a transitional phase. Many think that we are just at the beginning of a much longer and complex process, of an incomplete (...)

24 - 07 - 2011
Brave new mall
Mona Abaza reflects on the social and architectural consequences of the victory of consumerism If we try to imagine what the cities of the Middle East will look like in 20 or 50 years time, we might predict that the majority will consist of creeping (...)

16 - 09 - 2004
Advertising history
Mona Abaza* looks back on the consumer culture of the 1960s Many of our generation would agree that the most drastic change they ever experienced in their life style was during Al-Sadat's infitah. It was during Sadat that Egyptians discovered the (...)

01 - 07 - 2004
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