Sara Salem
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673844 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara Salem |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara |
| FAMILY NAME | Salem |
| SIGNATURE | SALEM S |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introduction to The Special Issue Gramsci in South-West Asia and North Africa
Sonic Cartographies of Internationalism
How does sound chart a different story of anticolonialism? Sound could perhaps draw out another map of space in history. Mirroring the form of sound waves, this article travels across borders, following the way sound waves themselves move. This is partly what makes sound so important, and what made the radio so central to anticolonial movements: Sound waves built new relations of solidarity because they could not be confined within colonial borde…
Capitalism at Home
Histories of capitalism in Egypt and the broader postcolonial world have much to gain from theorizing the home as a space of labor and care as a form of work. In this article the authors think with two Egyptian novels—The Open Door by Latifa al-Zayyat and Dhat by Sonallah Ibrahim—that center intimacy, care, and the home in their understandings of political and economic change. Representing both a revolutionary and a counterrevolutionary moment in…
Once More with Feeling
This article introduces the special section “Feeling Revolutions, Feeling Politics.” We explore the various ways in which feelings emerge in political life and the work they do in both consolidating and resisting neoliberal and colonial power. We note that if the management of affective infrastructures is foundational to those structures of power, feelings are of equal importance to protest and insurgency. Focusing on the historical moment of dec…
Anticolonial Antiphonies
This article narrates anticolonial antiphonies: an ongoing praxis of political reverberation and relay, a shuttling of strategies that carry across time, space, and language, connecting decolonial movements across histories and geographies. Antiphony inserts discord and dissonance into colonial orders, seeking to bring other worlds into being, and the article hears how sound carries movements that defy colonial cartographies and classifications, …
Jean-Yves Frétigné. To Live Is to Resist: The Life of Antonio Gramsci
On Anti-colonial Time: Encountering Archival Traces in a Haunted Present
This article explores anticolonial memory and anticolonial archiving as entry points into broader questions of time, temporality, and the politics of the present. Thinking with Egypt's project of decolonization in the mid-twentieth century, it demonstrates the varying ways in which anticolonial pasts express themselves in the present, and what this might suggest about the future. It thinks through two forms of anticolonial memory: one fleeting an…
Exploring Anticolonialism Through Intimate Forms of Knowing
Dans les travaux universitaires sur le Moyen-Orient, on a longtemps supposé que les chercheurs de la région étaient « moins objectifs » en raison de leurs liens personnels, intimes et politiques avec les pays dont ils sont originaires. En m’appuyant sur les critiques de cette hypothèse orientaliste par les féministes de couleur et les théoriciens postcoloniaux, j’explore ma propre positionnalité par rapport à mon travail sur l’anticolonialisme en…
Response and reflections
(Anticolonial) Revolution as a Felt Archive
Arwa Salih begins her memoir about Egypt’s anticolonial revolution by invoking haunting: “I felt profoundly disconnected from the ‘national struggle’ that haunts every sentence of this book.” Salih, a prominent Egyptian communist, evocatively named her memoir The Stillborn, referencing a project that was unfinished, that had seemingly “failed”, and yet that haunts us all. This article argues that frames such as feeling haunted or experiencing fai…
Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt: The Politics of Hegemony
This study presents an alternative story of the 2011 Egyptian revolution by revisiting Egypt's moment of decolonisation in the mid-twentieth century. Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt explores the country's first postcolonial project, arguing that the enduring afterlives of anticolonial politics, connected to questions of nationalism, military rule, capitalist development and violence, are central to understanding political events in Egypt today. …
Fanon in the postcolonial Mediterranean: Sovereignty and agency in neoliberal Egypt
In this essay I revisit Fanon’s theory on the emergence of a postcolonial elite in the Global South, and suggest that his argument around the dynamics of imperial transformation following the end of formal colonial rule can shed light on the postcolonial era, in particular the period of neoliberalization that began in the 1970s to which foreign capital such as European Union (EU) capital has been central. I use the concept of amnesia to highlight…
Empire's h(a)unting grounds: Theorising violence and resistance in Egypt and Afghanistan
This article thinks theory otherwise by searching for what is missing, silent and yet highly productive and constitutive of present realities. Looking at Afghanistan and Egypt, the authors show how imperial legacies and capitalist futurities are rendered invisible by dominant social theories, and why it matters that we think beyond an empiricist sociology in the Middle East. In Afghanistan, the authors explore the ways in which portrayals of the …
Haunted Histories: Nasserism and The Promises of the Past
This article revisits the Nasserist project through the lens of haunting. It explores the afterlives of Nasserism, in particular in relation to Egypt’s move toward a free market economy from the 1970s onwards. To do this, I explore the Nasserist project in order to excavate some of the promises that were made and to trace the legacies these created. I argue that both these promises—only partially fulfilled—and the social violence they at times co…
Reading Egypt’s Postcolonial State Through Frantz Fanon: Hegemony, Dependency and Development
This essay looks at how Fanon’s work on the postcolonial state can be used to interpret political changes in the postcolonial world, particularly his call to “stretch Marxism”. I use his notion of a dependent “native bourgeoisie” created through colonialism to look at the Egyptian capitalist class under British colonial rule, the Nasser era and the Sadat era. I argue the Nasserist ruling class did not resemble the dependent “native bourgeoisie” F…
On Transnational Feminist Solidarity: The Case of Angela Davis in Egypt
In the early 1970s, Angela Davis visited Egypt, a trip she wrote about in her book Women, Culture, and Politics. This article uses Davis’s trip as a lens through which to approach the question of transnational feminist solidarity through the eyes of multiple generations of Egyptian feminists. It argues that the particular conditions in Egypt in the 1950s through to the 1970s allowed for new international forms of solidarity focused on material co…
Four Women of Egypt: Memory, Geopolitics, and the Egyptian Women's Movement during the Nasser and Sadat Eras
This article addresses the Egyptian women's movement of the 1950s–1970s through a recent film entitled Four Women of Egypt , which focuses on the lives of four prominent Egyptian women active in the movement during that period. Using the concept of political memory, the article traces some of the major debates within the women's movement throughout this era. By focusing on the ways in which these women conceptualize the geopolitical, I show that …
Feminismo islámico, interseccionalidad y decolonialidad
Tabula Rasa es una revista científica del área de las ciencias sociales con una periodicidad trimestral, dedicada principalmente a las disciplinas de la Antropología, Historia, Sociología, Trabajo Social, Geografía Humana y Estudios Culturales
Haunted Histories: Nasserism and The Promises of the Past
This article revisits the Nasserist project through the lens of haunting. It explores the afterlives of Nasserism, in particular in relation to Egypt’s move toward a free market economy from the 1970s onwards. To do this, I explore the Nasserist project in order to excavate some of the promises that were made and to trace the legacies these created. I argue that both these promises—only partially fulfilled—and the social violence they at times co…
On Transnational Feminist Solidarity: The Case of Angela Davis in Egypt
In the early 1970s, Angela Davis visited Egypt, a trip she wrote about in her book Women, Culture, and Politics. This article uses Davis’s trip as a lens through which to approach the question of transnational feminist solidarity through the eyes of multiple generations of Egyptian feminists. It argues that the particular conditions in Egypt in the 1950s through to the 1970s allowed for new international forms of solidarity focused on material co…
Empire's h(a)unting grounds: Theorising violence and resistance in Egypt and Afghanistan
This article thinks theory otherwise by searching for what is missing, silent and yet highly productive and constitutive of present realities. Looking at Afghanistan and Egypt, the authors show how imperial legacies and capitalist futurities are rendered invisible by dominant social theories, and why it matters that we think beyond an empiricist sociology in the Middle East. In Afghanistan, the authors explore the ways in which portrayals of the …
Four Women of Egypt: Memory, Geopolitics, and the Egyptian Women's Movement during the Nasser and Sadat Eras
This article addresses the Egyptian women's movement of the 1950s–1970s through a recent film entitled Four Women of Egypt , which focuses on the lives of four prominent Egyptian women active in the movement during that period. Using the concept of political memory, the article traces some of the major debates within the women's movement throughout this era. By focusing on the ways in which these women conceptualize the geopolitical, I show that …
Feminismo islámico, interseccionalidad y decolonialidad
Tabula Rasa es una revista científica del área de las ciencias sociales con una periodicidad trimestral, dedicada principalmente a las disciplinas de la Antropología, Historia, Sociología, Trabajo Social, Geografía Humana y Estudios Culturales
Anticolonial Antiphonies
This article narrates anticolonial antiphonies: an ongoing praxis of political reverberation and relay, a shuttling of strategies that carry across time, space, and language, connecting decolonial movements across histories and geographies. Antiphony inserts discord and dissonance into colonial orders, seeking to bring other worlds into being, and the article hears how sound carries movements that defy colonial cartographies and classifications, …
On Anti-colonial Time: Encountering Archival Traces in a Haunted Present
This article explores anticolonial memory and anticolonial archiving as entry points into broader questions of time, temporality, and the politics of the present. Thinking with Egypt's project of decolonization in the mid-twentieth century, it demonstrates the varying ways in which anticolonial pasts express themselves in the present, and what this might suggest about the future. It thinks through two forms of anticolonial memory: one fleeting an…
Feminismo islámico, interseccionalidad y decolonialidad
Tabula Rasa es una revista científica del área de las ciencias sociales con una periodicidad trimestral, dedicada principalmente a las disciplinas de la Antropología, Historia, Sociología, Trabajo Social, Geografía Humana y Estudios Culturales
Four Women of Egypt: Memory, Geopolitics, and the Egyptian Women's Movement during the Nasser and Sadat Eras
This article addresses the Egyptian women's movement of the 1950s–1970s through a recent film entitled Four Women of Egypt , which focuses on the lives of four prominent Egyptian women active in the movement during that period. Using the concept of political memory, the article traces some of the major debates within the women's movement throughout this era. By focusing on the ways in which these women conceptualize the geopolitical, I show that …
Reading Egypt’s Postcolonial State Through Frantz Fanon: Hegemony, Dependency and Development
This essay looks at how Fanon’s work on the postcolonial state can be used to interpret political changes in the postcolonial world, particularly his call to “stretch Marxism”. I use his notion of a dependent “native bourgeoisie” created through colonialism to look at the Egyptian capitalist class under British colonial rule, the Nasser era and the Sadat era. I argue the Nasserist ruling class did not resemble the dependent “native bourgeoisie” F…
On Transnational Feminist Solidarity: The Case of Angela Davis in Egypt
In the early 1970s, Angela Davis visited Egypt, a trip she wrote about in her book Women, Culture, and Politics. This article uses Davis’s trip as a lens through which to approach the question of transnational feminist solidarity through the eyes of multiple generations of Egyptian feminists. It argues that the particular conditions in Egypt in the 1950s through to the 1970s allowed for new international forms of solidarity focused on material co…
Haunted Histories: Nasserism and The Promises of the Past
This article revisits the Nasserist project through the lens of haunting. It explores the afterlives of Nasserism, in particular in relation to Egypt’s move toward a free market economy from the 1970s onwards. To do this, I explore the Nasserist project in order to excavate some of the promises that were made and to trace the legacies these created. I argue that both these promises—only partially fulfilled—and the social violence they at times co…
Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt: The Politics of Hegemony
This study presents an alternative story of the 2011 Egyptian revolution by revisiting Egypt's moment of decolonisation in the mid-twentieth century. Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt explores the country's first postcolonial project, arguing that the enduring afterlives of anticolonial politics, connected to questions of nationalism, military rule, capitalist development and violence, are central to understanding political events in Egypt today. …
Fanon in the postcolonial Mediterranean: Sovereignty and agency in neoliberal Egypt
In this essay I revisit Fanon’s theory on the emergence of a postcolonial elite in the Global South, and suggest that his argument around the dynamics of imperial transformation following the end of formal colonial rule can shed light on the postcolonial era, in particular the period of neoliberalization that began in the 1970s to which foreign capital such as European Union (EU) capital has been central. I use the concept of amnesia to highlight…
Empire's h(a)unting grounds: Theorising violence and resistance in Egypt and Afghanistan
This article thinks theory otherwise by searching for what is missing, silent and yet highly productive and constitutive of present realities. Looking at Afghanistan and Egypt, the authors show how imperial legacies and capitalist futurities are rendered invisible by dominant social theories, and why it matters that we think beyond an empiricist sociology in the Middle East. In Afghanistan, the authors explore the ways in which portrayals of the …
Response and reflections
(Anticolonial) Revolution as a Felt Archive
Arwa Salih begins her memoir about Egypt’s anticolonial revolution by invoking haunting: “I felt profoundly disconnected from the ‘national struggle’ that haunts every sentence of this book.” Salih, a prominent Egyptian communist, evocatively named her memoir The Stillborn, referencing a project that was unfinished, that had seemingly “failed”, and yet that haunts us all. This article argues that frames such as feeling haunted or experiencing fai…
Exploring Anticolonialism Through Intimate Forms of Knowing
Dans les travaux universitaires sur le Moyen-Orient, on a longtemps supposé que les chercheurs de la région étaient « moins objectifs » en raison de leurs liens personnels, intimes et politiques avec les pays dont ils sont originaires. En m’appuyant sur les critiques de cette hypothèse orientaliste par les féministes de couleur et les théoriciens postcoloniaux, j’explore ma propre positionnalité par rapport à mon travail sur l’anticolonialisme en…
Jean-Yves Frétigné. To Live Is to Resist: The Life of Antonio Gramsci
On Anti-colonial Time: Encountering Archival Traces in a Haunted Present
This article explores anticolonial memory and anticolonial archiving as entry points into broader questions of time, temporality, and the politics of the present. Thinking with Egypt's project of decolonization in the mid-twentieth century, it demonstrates the varying ways in which anticolonial pasts express themselves in the present, and what this might suggest about the future. It thinks through two forms of anticolonial memory: one fleeting an…
Anticolonial Antiphonies
This article narrates anticolonial antiphonies: an ongoing praxis of political reverberation and relay, a shuttling of strategies that carry across time, space, and language, connecting decolonial movements across histories and geographies. Antiphony inserts discord and dissonance into colonial orders, seeking to bring other worlds into being, and the article hears how sound carries movements that defy colonial cartographies and classifications, …
Introduction to The Special Issue Gramsci in South-West Asia and North Africa
Sonic Cartographies of Internationalism
How does sound chart a different story of anticolonialism? Sound could perhaps draw out another map of space in history. Mirroring the form of sound waves, this article travels across borders, following the way sound waves themselves move. This is partly what makes sound so important, and what made the radio so central to anticolonial movements: Sound waves built new relations of solidarity because they could not be confined within colonial borde…
Capitalism at Home
Histories of capitalism in Egypt and the broader postcolonial world have much to gain from theorizing the home as a space of labor and care as a form of work. In this article the authors think with two Egyptian novels—The Open Door by Latifa al-Zayyat and Dhat by Sonallah Ibrahim—that center intimacy, care, and the home in their understandings of political and economic change. Representing both a revolutionary and a counterrevolutionary moment in…
Once More with Feeling
This article introduces the special section “Feeling Revolutions, Feeling Politics.” We explore the various ways in which feelings emerge in political life and the work they do in both consolidating and resisting neoliberal and colonial power. We note that if the management of affective infrastructures is foundational to those structures of power, feelings are of equal importance to protest and insurgency. Focusing on the historical moment of dec…
Political science (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Colonialism (6 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (6 works) · Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works) · Capitalism (4 works)