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Kinetic Karama: Bargaining for Dignity in the Pursuit of a New Arab Social...
Amro Ali, “Kinetic Karama: Bargaining for Dignity in the Pursuit of a New Arab Social Contract” in The Modern Arab State: A Decade of Uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, Ed. Youssef Cherif,...
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Where couscous ends: Maghrebi routes to Alexandria
Alexandria’s connection to the Maghreb is often overlooked. But the cosmopolitan port city developed through centuries of migration and influence from the western side of the Mediterranean, up until...
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Reading Dystopian Impulses in Contemporary Alexandria (public lecture)
The seminar, which is hosted by the EUME/Forum Transregionale Studien, explores how the Egyptian city of Alexandria has long been subjected to utopian and dystopian tensions that permeate the arts,...
View ArticleThe Place of Cultural Pluralism in Alexandria
I will be giving this panel talk, along with Mohamed Gohar and Will Hanley, on cultural pluralism in Alexandria on 21st October 2021. Click here for registration. “Less than a hundred years ago, most...
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Can we still speak of a Mediterranean lifestyle?
Fishermen in Alexandria, 2020 (photo by Amro Ali). This essay was first published in German in the Berlin journal Die Politische Meinung (PDF) under the title, Mediterran?: Eine Lebensart und das...
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Alexandria, Climate Change, and the Mediterranean Narrative
This short essay originally appeared in the Madrid–based Fundacion Alternativas. Kites flying above the Alexandria corniche. Photo by Amro Ali (2020) The modern history and contemporary nature of...
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Mo Salah, a Moral Somebody?
I have uploaded my book chapter on Mo Salah that came out this year with the University of California Press. Click here for the PDF Amro Ali, “Mo Salah, a Moral Somebody?” in Global Middle East: Into...
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Reimagining the Arabs: literature and social contracts
The live event (27 September 2021) at Casa Arabe in Madrid was wonderful and engaging. Along with the institute’s Karim Hauser and Jordanian novelist Fadia Faqir, we discussed reimagining futures for...
View ArticlePodcast: On the Need to Shape the Arab Exile Body (with Amro Ali)
This is a conversation with Amro Ali, author of the essay “On the Need to Shape the Arab Exile Body in Berlin.” He is also co-president of the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities,...
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Bringing Philosophy and Sociology to the Egyptian Public (public lecture)
This lecture will discuss how sociology and philosophy are conveyed to the public in restrictive contexts in the Arab world. Using Egypt as an example, Dr. Amro Ali will outline the approach taken to...
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