This week’s dispatch includes my review of Sara Salem’s Gramscian history of post-independence Egypt, as well as reports on Cairo and the war in Palestine, the Red Sea maritime crisis, security crackdowns, austerity measures, the Egyptian military’s plans to harvest hospital patients’ biodata for artificial intelligence projects, capital punishment, the Menedez trial, and Sudan.
📁 The politics of hegemony
I reviewed Sara Salem’s book, Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt: The Politics of Hegemony, in the Africa Journal.