Arabic

الفهّامة

Chihab El Khachab

English

How Labor, Technology, and Mediation Shape the Industry

Making Film in Egypt

Children's Book

Biography or Memoir

Nonfiction

Fiction

Poetry

Graphic Novels, Comic Books, Illustrated Books, and Manga

Palestine

Lebanon

Egypt

Syria

Iraq

Morocco

Saudi Arabia

Tunisia

Algeria

Türkiye

Iran

Jordan

Sudan

Yemen

Libya

United Arab Emirates

Kuwait

Oman

Bahrain

Art and Art History

Environment, Health, and Science

Gastronomy

Architecture and Urbanism

Business and Finance

Journalism and Media Studies

Literary Theory and Criticism

Political, Cultural, and Social History

Religion and Spirituality

Feminism and Gender

Anthropology and Society

Music

Politics

Psychology

Philosophy

I am an academic and writer working on Egyptian cinema, popular culture, humour, technology, and bureaucracy. Born in Cairo and raised in Montreal, I went on to get a DPhil in Anthropology from the University of Oxford. Between 2016 and 2020, I worked as a Junior Research Fellow in Anthropology in Christ Church, Oxford. In 2020-2021, I was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (FAMES), Cambridge. I am now Associate Professor in Visual Anthropology and a Fellow of Wolfson College at the University of Oxford.My first book, <a href="https://www.kotobli.com/en/books/6449-making-film-in-egypt" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Making Film in Egypt</a>, has been published with the American University in Cairo Press (2021). This book is the first ethnographic study of the Egyptian film industry. It contributes to scholarship in media anthropology, media studies, and Middle East anthropology.My academic work has appeared in the <a href="https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9655.13553" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute</a>, the <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21674736.2021.1935065?journalCode=rala20" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Journal of the African Literature Association</a>, the <a href="http://www.arabstudiesjournal.org/271-spring-2019.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Arab Studies Journal</a>, <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19436149.2017.1371905" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Middle East Critique</a>, <a href="https://www.arabmediasociety.com/state-control-over-film-production-in-egypt/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Arab Media &amp; Society</a>, and <a href="https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/var.12108" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Visual Anthropology Review</a> among others. I wrote a number of essays on Egyptian politics and culture in English and Arabic, and I write a regular column on philosophical concepts in Arabic on the literary website <a href="https://boringbooks.net/author/chihab-el-khachab" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Boring Books</a>.Author copies of all articles, essays, and columns are available on this website, in English and in Arabic.

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