Issue 23, winter/spring 2017 https://doi.org/10.70090/GS17SATC جلة سماعين- باحث بمركز البحث في الأنثروبولوجيا الاجتماعية والثقافية  CRASC – وهران، الجزائر أصبح التلفزيون مختبرا هائلا لتجاربنا وأحلامنا، وتقنية تتخلل نسيج حياتنا اليومية، إنه يصنع بتدفق صوره حدثا خطابيا وينشئ مضامين مفهومية تخلق شكلا جديدا للتواصل المجتمعي، ويذهب منظرو وسائل الإعلام إلى أن هذه التقنية تحمل نصوصا، وإذ …

Issue 23, winter/spring 2017 https://doi.org/10.70090/GAG17PIS د.غانم السعيد محمد غانم- أستاذ ورئيس قسم الأدب والنقد، كلية اللغة العربية، جامعة الأزهر. إن أخطر تهمة يمكن أن يُتهم بها دين أو عقيدة هى الدعوة إلى نشر ثقافة العنف والتطرف والتشدد الذي يؤول في النهاية إلى إرهاب يزهق الأرواح ويدمر الحياة، وأن كثيرًا من أتباع …

Issue 23, winter/spring 2017 https://doi.org/10.70090/DA17NMCI  داليا أشرف- باحثة وإعلامية مصرية. المقدمة: يُعدُ الجيل الذي ولد بين عامي (1980-2000م) أول جيل ينشأ في البيئة الرقمية الجديدة، وهو يتمتع بخصائص مختلفة عن أسلافه؛ إذ أحدثت الثورة التكنولوجية الحديثة تغيرا في مصادر المعلومات والمعرفة لدى الشباب في العالم كله، ومن ثم أصبحت محركات البحث …

Issue 23, winter/spring 2017 https://doi.org/10.70090/CG17TIPD  Abstract The article deciphers the symbolic deconstruction of the Israeli Indignant Protest (2011–2012) on behalf of the local cultural simulacrum—based on Zionist narratives of Judaism. It presents, through the subjective eye of a participant observer, the symbolic paradigm by which the protest opened its way …

Issue 23, winter/spring 2017 https://doi.org/10.70090/AFH17FRI Anna Rousillion’s feature documentary I Am the People follows Farraj and his family through four tumultuous years in Egyptian history, beginning just before revolution and chronicling their lives in its aftermath. Farraj, the film’s protagonist, is a wiry farmer in the southern province of Luxor, …

Issue 23, winter/spring 2017 https://doi.org/10.70090/CEK17SCF This essay is part of an ethnographic study of Egyptian film production conducted between August 2013 and September 2015. The study is centered on participant observation within two main film companies, New Century Film Production and Al-Batrik Art Production, in addition to interviews conducted with …

Any attempt to write an account of popular culture in the Middle East must face the question of how to define Arab and the Arabs? This might seem an odd statement at first glance: some 350 million people speak the language, ergo they are Arabs, and Arab, the Arabs, the …

Issue 23, winter/spring 2017 https://doi.org/10.70090/MMK17POP Read an excerpt of Marwan Kraidy's latest book The Naked Blogger of Cairo here. On Tuesday, December 6, 2016, a strange sight appeared on Rabin Square in Tel Aviv. Close to city hall, passersby saw a four-meter high gilded statue of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in …

Issue 23, winter/spring 2017 https://doi.org/10.70090/HA17PCME On November 21, 2016, the Middle East Centre of St Antony’s College, Oxford hosted the roundtable and launch of Public Culture and Islam in Modern Egypt: Media, Intellectuals and Society (London: I.B.Tauris, 2016) with myself and Morgan Clarke (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford) …

Issue 23, winter/spring 2017 https://doi.org/10.70090/YD17PPFV During a lecture entitled “‘I Think We Will be Calm During the Next War’: Past, Present, and Future Violence in Lebanese Comics,” Ghenwa Hayek, assistant professor of Modern Arabic Literature at the University of Chicago, discussed Lebanese comics as a means of reflecting war and …