David Harvey: “I think that the urban question is really becoming a central question today, and the qualities of urban life are moving to the forefront of what contemporary protests are about.” David Harvey visited Diyarbakir and talked with Sardar
Thank you [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu, may God bless you and those like you so that you exterminate Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood traitors. Azza Sami, deputy editor-in-chief of Al-Ahram newspaper
“[N]o single issue has been as unifying over the decades for these people than their long intensely felt opposition to the injustice, suffering, and exploitation that the Palestinian people have endured for the past century as a result of the
This short film documents the first steps of the book project “Revolution as a Process – The Case of the Egyptian Uprising”, which has now been published and presented.
Today Egypt continues to witness increasing polarization and decreasing space for dissent and critique of the official position. In such an environment, the book project “Revolution as a Process – The Case of the Egyptian Uprising” aims to counter this trend
Epilogue: Prohibiting the Muslim Brotherhood Won´t Bring Peace to the Country Terrorism and propaganda. These two notions represent a dialectical symbiosis, which paved the way to prohibiting the Muslim Brotherhood and pushing it out of the public arena after the
2011 and After: Social Protest, Power Bargaining and Political Failure Starting off as revivalist and anti-colonial movement, the Muslim Brotherhood focused on liberation through individual catharsis as well as social reform. Following this approach, it experienced many different legal and
Prologue: Imperial Rule and Islamic Awakening When Napoleon and his “expedition” entered Egypt for the first time in 1798 it marked the beginning of a series of European incursions – namely by the British and French Empires – to subjugate
Shabka´s Tyma Kraitt discussing at Karim El-Gawhary‘s book presentation “Frauenpower auf Arabisch” in the Austrian parliament on February 10th, 2014. The event was organised by the Grüne Bildungswerkstatt Minderheiten, Alev Korun and Berivan Aslan from the Green Party. The panel:
As Shabka is establishing a new headquarter for the Middle East at the moment, the book project “Revolution as a Process – The Case of the Egyptian Uprising” is evolving beautifully. In November 2013 authors from the Middle East and
