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Sharif S. Elmusa

Sharif S. Elmusa is a scholar, poet, and translator. His recent research focuses on environmental politics and culture, including in Palestine. His latest publications include Culture and the Natural Environment: Ancient and Modern Middle Eastern Texts and The Burden of Resources: Oil and Water in the Gulf and the Nile Basin (editor, both Cairo Papers in Social Science monograph series, AUC Press). Elmusa is a poet, co-editor of Grape Leaves: A Century of Arab American Poetry and author of Flawed Landscape: Poems 1988-2008. His articles appeared in major newspapers in the US and Egypt. He was an occasional contributor to Al-Ahram Weekly and Egypt Independent, and currently to Jadaliyya and Mada Masr. Elmusa, who holds a Ph.D. from M.I.T is an associate professor of Political Science, at the American University in Cairo. He has taught at Georgetown University in Qatar, and at Yale. He is Palestinian by birth, American by citizenship, and moves between Egypt and the United States.

ARTICLES BY Sharif S. Elmusa

  • Keep Counting

    Keep Counting

    In the beginning was the number.
    11,500 people dead:
    (round number)
    4,710 children will neither forget
    Nor remember their childhood

  • Step Gently: The Political Imagination of Iliya Abu Madi

    Step Gently: The Political Imagination of Iliya Abu Madi

    In 1900 Ilya Abu Madi, a boy of about ten followed in the footsteps of his older brother and uncle from Lebanon to Alexandria, Egypt. He grew up fast in this port city: he worked for a living, got engaged in Egyptian nationalist politics, suffered the death of his brother, and taught himself the..

  • The Rock of Palestinian Resistance and Deal of the Century

    The Rock of Palestinian Resistance and Deal of the Century

    In his Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus defines the absurd as the chasm that is manifested in the confrontation between two highly unequal things or elements, such as the attempt of a person armed with a sword to fight a group of machine guns. He further emphasizes that the absurdity stem..

  • The Land of Peace

    The Land of Peace

    THE LAND OF PEACE

     

    A graveyard, too, can be a strategic asset.

    Enter southern Iraq, August 2004. Then

    the U.S. force in the area sought<..

  • بين مكافحة التطبيع العربية، والـ«بي دي إس» العالمية

    بين مكافحة التطبيع العربية، والـ«بي دي إس» العالمية

    في الشهر الماضي، قررت سينما «زاوية» القاهرية، والتي تعتبر نفسها مسوّقةً للأفلام «البديلة»، خاصة من مصر والدول العربية الأخرى، عرض فيلم «القضية 23» للمخرج اللبناني زياد دويري، الذي أصبح مثيرًا للجدل بعد إخراجه فيلمًا بعنوان «الصدمة»، أثناء إقامته في إسرائيل. وقتها، استنكر سلوكه هذا الكثيرون، بما في ذلك «زاوية» نفسها في ب..

  • Bombast of Mass Slayer

    Bombast of Mass Slayer

    My name is Mass Slayer.
    I live in bombs and bullets,
    in cannons and rockets. 
    I live in the nucleus of you.
    I could be an army, a lone wolf,
    or a terrorist band.
    I need not toil,
    pay indi..

  • What They Took

    What They Took

    \"\"
    [Illustration by Tanuja Ramani, ..

  • An Update of Our Fall

    An Update of Our Fall

    AN UPDATE OF OUR FALL

    The hair delicate
    The waves combed it
    As if composing lines
    Lamenting the deed
    The mouth is turned away
    From the..

  • Sharing the Nile Waters According to Needs

    Sharing the Nile Waters According to Needs

    A ministerial-level meeting in Khartoum including Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan to establish mechanisms for further investigations of the consequences of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (

  • Egypt’s Nile Blues

    Egypt’s Nile Blues

    Ethiopia is forging ahead with the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile, which it began more than three years ago, despite Egypt’s protests. 

    Unlike Egypt, Sudan has not raised objections to the dam, reckoning that it could gain from the project ..

  • How Long Does A Transition Last?

    How Long Does A Transition Last?

    HOW LONG DOES A TRANSITION LAST?

    Do not write history in verse

                      Mahmoud Darwish

     

    Afterwards we shall sit on the ground to read all their hearts

    as though we were reading the history of the world for ..

  • Rebels Beware of the Bears that Hug Your Generals

    Rebels Beware of the Bears that Hug Your Generals

    The young people of Egypt led the January 25 revolution, and the army inherited it first, then the army jointly with the Muslim Brothers. And now under the rubric of Tamarod (Rebel), they have spearheaded again the overthrow of President Mohamed Morsi, which they could only — or opted to — ..