L’essai du jour de France culture – Au coeur des révoltes arabes
Le chapitre que nous avons co-écrit avec Chaymaa Hassabo était l’objet d’une chronique sur France culture. L’émission est accessible ici.
Les jeunes dans les révoltes
Vous trouverez, en cliquant sur l’image ci-dessous, les enregistrements audio de la journée d’étude du CREDESPO, Université de Bourgogne sur les jeunes dans les révoltes, avec notamment deux interventions sur le monde arabe, celle d’Amin Allal et de moi même.
About the 2nd edition of Oufuqy Festival in Alexandria
An interesting analysis of how ideas such as Le Bon’s Psyhcologie des Foules are used in the revolutionary Egypt
During the last Egyptian revolution, a very special kind of intellectuals started emerging in media to generously share their comments on political affairs. I have in mind psychiatrists. It seems that most of media channels have their own experts of the human mind, who in times of political crisis comes out, as an oracle, to teach common mortals some truths on what is going on and what is awaiting them. Ahmad Okasha’s kindness-beaming face, the head of the Psychiatry Association, should be known for all. He was appearing on Masry’s pages to explain that the revolution was due to the feeling of « frustration », that the origin of dictatorship was a a simple “mental illness”, that the characters of presidential candidates can be easily undisclosed by a quick glance of a vigilant psychiatrist, and that revolutionary hungover could be overcome by an all powerful feeling of love.
But Ahmad Okasha is…
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Satori in Alexandria 