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الإنتخابات الديموقراطية: إيماء (ما بعد الـ) كولونيالي
![[.جبهة شارع محمد محمود في المعارك التي دارت بين ١٤ و١٩ نوفمبر . تصوير حسام الحملاوي]](/content_images/3/sm_frontline-MM.jpg "[.جبهة شارع محمد محمود في المعارك التي دارت بين ١٤ و١٩ نوفمبر . تصوير حسام الحملاوي]")
سعود عمر، هو عضوٌ في نقابة عمال قناة السويس، ترشح للانتخابات البرلمانية كمستقل عن دائرة مدينة السويس الساحلية. لكن قبل أن يتوجه الناخبون إلى صناديق الإقتراع في الدورة الثانية يومي 14 و15ديسمبر(كانون الأول)، تم استبدال الأرقام المخصصة للمرشحين بشكل مفاجئ، رغم أن العديد من الناخبين يعتمدون على هذه الأرقام للتصويت لمرشحهم المفضل، نظراً لطول وتعقيد لوائح الإقتراع. وفي حين أن ملصقات عمر في بعض أنحاء المدينة، تشير الى أن رقمه 62، فإن الرقم الذي ظهر بجانب أسمه على لائحة ...
Keep Reading »Democratic Elections: A (Post-)Colonial Telling
Seoud Omar, a member of the Suez Canal Authority’s workers union, stood for parliamentary election as an independent candidate in Egypt’s port city of Suez. Just a week before the people of Suez went to vote in the second stage of elections on 14 and 15 December, the numbers assigned to each candidate on the ballot were suddenly changed. Many voters rely on these numbers to identify their preferred candidate in a long list of names on a confusing ballot paper. While Omar’s ...
Keep Reading »Tahrir August 1st: Masquerade for a Lost Legitimacy
![[Military police personnel run after demonstrators in Tahrir square in Cairo, August 1, 2011. Source: REUTERS]](/content_images/3/sm_armytahrir.jpg "[Military police personnel run after demonstrators in Tahrir square in Cairo, August 1, 2011. Source: REUTERS]")
After a nearly three-week long sit-in, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) sent their forces—the same forces that are reportedly tasked with “defending us from our external enemies”—to violently attack peaceful demonstrators, clear a site of protest, and, with the help of a propaganda media machine, try to win over more support of the Egyptian public. I will map out the logic I see in this violent rampage. From his perch @kikhote captures an important vantage ...
Keep Reading »Effects of Neoliberal Policies on Farmers and the Food Price Crisis in Egypt (Video)
![[Image from screen shot of film.]](/content_images/3/sm_Egyptfarmersneoliberalismriskvideo.jpg "[Image from screen shot of film.]")
“Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own wine-press” - Khalil Gibran Since the late 1970s the Egyptian government has steered the country toward economic liberalization. This entails the rolling back of the government's role across all public sectors, the lowering of import tariffs and an increased drive for exports. One of the sectors that were hit hardest by ...
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Philip Rizk is a film-maker and part of the mosireen collective. You can follow him on twitter: @tabulagaza
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