The Intriguing Messages of a Muslim Slave's Tombstone Jelle Bruning taps a new source for the history of slavery among early Muslim communities and shows what funerary epigraphy can tell us about how ninth-century Muslims dealt with their deceased slaves. Jelle Bruning • January 21, 2021 • 1 comment
The Nile: Between Arab and African Geopolitics The Ethiopian mega dam on the Nile raises not only hydro-technical disagreement between Egypt and Sudan (downstream countries) and Ethiopia (the source of the Blue Nile); it also underscores latent contested perceptions of Arabs versus Africans. However, the Nile flow transcends this division. Abeer Abazeed • September 17, 2020
Coronavirus Update: The Middle East and North Africa In this blogpost, LUCIS brings together short updates on the impact of COVID-19 in countries in the MENA region, written by experts on and researchers in the countries listed. New entries will be added as they arrive. Khadija Kadrouch-Outmany, Marina de Regt, Onur Ada, Samira Jadir, Sai Englert, Asghar Seyed Gohrab, Ibrahim Saweros and Suliman Ibrahim • May 14, 2020
An Egyptologist’s Breakdown of “The Prince of Egypt” (1998) The 1998 animated film, never released in Egypt, was criticised for misrepresenting ancient Egypt. A closer look reveals that, in many ways, it is clearly inspired by Egyptian archaeology. Daniel Soliman • April 02, 2020 • 3 comments
The Governor’s Orders: Part Two Read the history behind the story published here last year on the arrival of a message from the governor of Egypt in an eighth-century Egyptian village. Eline Scheerlinck • January 24, 2020
The Governor's Orders: Part One What did the Arab conquests of Egypt mean for the average Egyptian villager? This story takes place a few years after 700, in the countryside of Middle Egypt. It’s based on a Coptic document that belonged to the Arab-Muslim government. Eline Scheerlinck • June 20, 2019 • 1 comment
A Blind Dean of Arabic Literature: The Legacy of Taha Hussein In 1979, millions of Egyptians huddled in front of their TVs to watch a series about the life of a blind man from a village in Upper Egypt who fought against poverty and ignorance to become a symbol of enlightenment in post-colonial Egypt: Taha Hussein. Amany Soliman • April 11, 2018
The Other Arab Spring: coloured in ‘green' In a desperate plea for a “greener” and sustainable future, young Egyptian environmentalists silently take the lead in the collective fight against socio-economic injustices writes Donatella Vincenti. Donatella Vincenti • April 17, 2015
Women in post-revolution Egypt Cairo, May 2014. From several wifi-equipped locations across the city, Viviane Fairbank reports about the position of women in post-revolution Egypt. Viviane Fairbank • June 23, 2014
