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Symbols of Blood Sacrifice in the Egyptian Uprising
Photo by Abdelrahman Mustafa When Hosni Mubarak addressed the protesters for the second time on Thursday, perhaps the biggest misstep he made was to invoke the martyrs and to promise to bring their...
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In Egypt, the Official Death Toll from the Uprisings is 840
Pictures of Egyptian anti-government protesters killed during clashes with police and pro-government forces are displayed during a candlelight vigil at Cairo’s Tahrir Square on February 9, 2011. This...
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Understanding Egypt’s Emerging “Martyr Pop”
When Egyptian youth went to Tahrir Square for 18 days beginning January 25, most of their pop stars did not join them. Amr Diab, arguably the most popular Arabic singing star, loaded his family aboard...
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Five Lessons From Egypt’s June 29th Violence
Christian Science Monitor photograph The violence that erupted in Cairo 29 June when police clashed with protesters left more than 1,000 people injured. Many of the details remain unclear, but what is...
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Anthropologists Thinking About Life and Death in Egypt
What makes death meaningful? What kind of social action is martyrdom? How are religious and revolutionary forms of martyrdom similar and different? Are martyrs made or do they choose their death? And...
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Martyrs Without A Cause? Egypt’s Revolutionary Martyrs as Empty Signifiers
What is the meaning of martyrdom? The difference between a martyr and a victim is the investment of a slain body with meaning by a public. The martyrs body indexes the circumstances of his or her...
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Dying For The Revolution: Special Journal Issue
“Death lies at the beginning of the Arab uprisings and continues to haunt them.” So writes Amira Mittermeier in the introduction to a special collection of articles in the anthropology journal Ethnos....
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