Dancing is a Sin: Two One-Woman Plays from Egypt - Jan 14, Boston Performance, Streamed Live & Archived

Livestreaming "Dancing is a Sin: Two One-Woman Plays from Egypt” @huntington—Thurs Jan 14—7:30pET/4:30pPT https://t.co/UheuuACsDe #howlround

— HowlRound (@HowlRound) January 11, 2016

@aymanfadel @HowlRoundTV @huntington Yes, the video archive will be embedded in that post —

— HowlRound (@HowlRound) January 13, 2016

h/t M. Lynx Qualey at Arab Lit.

Review: Soft Force: Women in Egypt’s Islamic Awakening by Ellen Anne McLarney

Caron E. Gentry reviewed Soft Force: Women in Egypt’s Islamic Awakening by Ellen Anne McLarney. Search for the book in a library near you. The review was published in Times Higher Education, September 10, 2015.

Professor McLarney also gave an interview at Islamicommentary.org.

The YouTube videos below are short talks by the author. The first introduces the book. The second introduces how she became interested in research about Muslim ideas about human rights in the 19th century C.E.

I have not read the book.

Walls of Freedom: Street Art of the Egyptian Revolution

Egypt officials seize books on revolution street art http://t.co/1aD8mTN3E2 #NewsfromElsewhere pic.twitter.com/XF0fjOkyAx
— BBC Monitoring (@BBCMonitoring) February 19, 2015

To purchase the English version of the book, visit the publisher's web page. The book has its own website. The Facebook page has ongoing developments, including the Egyptian government's efforts to erase the graffiti.

This article reports that the copies were seized in Alexandria over a fee dispute, not censorship.

Censor says Walls of Freedom book does not incite rioting but simply documents Egypt's revolutionary graffiti http://t.co/hhZkoVZPNI

— Mada Masr مدى مصر (@MadaMasr) February 23, 2015

Science and Religion in Mamluk Egypt: Ibn al-Nafis, Pulmonary Transit and Bodily Resurrection by Nahyan Fancy

Science and Religion in Mamluk Egypt: Ibn Al-Nafis, Pulmonary Transit and Bodily Resurrection by Nahyan Fancy.

"This book should be read by any historian of pre-modern science and medicine, not only by Islamicists," writes Leigh Chipman ... read more

Open Access Academic Books from University of California Press

h/t Mark Lynch, who retweeted

This is pretty great: UC Press makes 194 e-books from its history catalog (and 700+ books total) open access http://t.co/zzw4LYZisG
— Ian Mosby (@Ian_Mosby) December 30, 2013

Here are some books which may interest readers of this blog:

Review: Autumn of Dictatorship by Samer Soliman

The Autumn of Dictatorship: Fiscal Crisis and Political Change in Egypt under Mubarak by Samer Soliman

Professor Mohammad Fadel wrote a review at Shanfaraa.com. I have not read the book.

Support Herstory Egypt: Words of Women from the Egyptian Revolution

Leil-Zahra Mortada (Twitter) is the director of a YouTube series called Herstory Egypt: Words of Wisdom from the Egyptian Revolution. I've sent in a donation to support it using Indiegogo.

Please support this project by watching the videos, helping translate them into different languages and spreading the word.

And, yes, I know that Leil-Zahra Mortada is "feminist, queer, Arab and anarchist." So?

Review: The Invisible Arab: The Promise and Peril of the Arab Revolution

Marwan Bishara, a political analyst for Al-Jazeera satellite news network, wrote an Arab-nationalist perspective essay about the ongoing revolutions in North Africa and Southwest Asia.

Standing in Solidarity - Video Message from New York City to Egypt

Another video from Hena Ashraf:


Standing in Solidarity from Hena Ashraf on Vimeo.

Amnesty International Report on Women

Amnesty International has released a report entitled "Egypt: Women Targeted by Association." A local Amnesty International member requested that I translated some letters to Gihan Ibrahim Abdelhamid, the longest-held female administrative detainee in Egypt, into Arabic. I've attached them to this blog entry in case you wanted to use them yourself. The report does not include instructions on how to send the letters, but in sha Allah I'll get that information and updated the blog entry.

Arabic religious letter (MS Word, TIF)
Arabic secular letter (MS Word, TIF)
English religious letter
English secular letter

Update April 20, 2011