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Establishing My Political Science Bona Fides
In the interests of understanding the roles social media has played in the Egyptian revolution, I blog critically not only about the work being done in my own field, but in communications, political...
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Ouch! Did I Say That?
The other day I stumbled across a pessimistic Arabic blog post about the revolution that mentioned my book. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that I was being cited as an expert on “the prevalence...
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Review of Connected in Cairo in Arab Studies Journal
“Participant observation being the messy kind of data gathering practice it is, I don’t really select my informants. I am a guest in their world … and it is my hosts who select me.” There’s a new...
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New Review of Connected in Cairo in Middle East Journal
One of the two books that inspired me to stop just drawing on observations of Cairo for class lecture examples and actually begin research and writing was Farha Ghannam’s Remaking the Modern: Space,...
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New Review of Connected in Cairo by Joel Gordon
It’s a very teachable book, writes Joel Gordon, but he’d like to see more of the middle classes who challenge elite assumptions. There’s a new review of Connected in Cairo written by Joel Gordon in the...
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2012 In Review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 42,000 views in 2012....
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New Review of Connected in Cairo
A review of Connected in Cairo appeared in the Journal of African History 53(3): 412-413. The review is by Anouk de Koning of the University of Amsterdam, author of Global Dreams: Class, Gender, and...
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Two New Papers on Liminality in the Egyptian Revolution In The Works
What happens when liminality–that state of uncertainty and transformation–doesn’t settle into a new normalcy but goes on and on? That’s the topic of two chapters I’ve written for new forthcoming books....
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New Review of Connected In Cairo
I’ll confess that I had never heard of the journal Anthropological Notebooks until I saw a quote credited to them from a review of my book in Amazon. It turns out they are a well-produced annual series...
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Highlighting Connected In Cairo
Web 2.0 offers all manner of interesting ways of exploring texts. A few days ago, I went to my Amazon author page to update my biographical note–six months late–and was distracted by a feature called...
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New Review of Connected In Cairo
I knew I was going to be a writer long before I knew I what kind of stuff I was going to write. In spite of a couple of plays that got produced, two lousy novels, a handful of even lousier short...
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Wasta, Work and Corruption in Transnational Business
Thinking about wasta: When does using your social relations in management become “corruption”? Photo Credit: Interact Egypt – Play Innovation via Compfight cc I recently read an article on wasta and...
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New Book On Revolutionary Egypt (With A Chapter By Yours Truly)
I have a chapter in this new book on the Egyptian revolution. In 2012 I traveled to Oxford University to participate in an interdisciplinary conference on the Egyptian revolution. “The Egyptian...
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Thinking About Liminality in Tahrir Square
I have a chapter on the Egyptian revolution in this new book. As I struggled to make sense of the dramatic changes in Egypt from January 2011 forward, I was surprised to find that the set of concepts...
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New Book Chapter On Mediated Experience Of The Uprisings
This just in: I have a new book chapter out on the Egyptian uprisings. The title is “Mediated Experience in the Egyptian Revolution” and it appears in Digital Middle East: State and Society in the...
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Bibliography of the Egyptian Revolution Reaches 1000 Entries
Yesterday I was asked to review a paper on the Egyptian uprisings for an academic journal. After I read the manuscript, I went through the references, as I always do, to see if the text referenced any...
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