ElSayed Mahmoud ElSehamy

ElSayed is currently a first-year MA student enrolled at Central European University’s Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology.  He previously studied at Cairo Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CILAS) for the 2016-2017 academic year, after which he had a Humanities co-fellowship (2017-2018) and served as the director of CILAS’s Translation Lab. His research interests include governmentality, displacement, dispossession and state configurations, with a particular interest in post-colonial thought. Reciting Arabic poetry keeps him alive.

Contributions:
Everywhere but Nowhere: Yassin Al-Haj Saleh’s Understanding of Exiles
الدفن وإعادة الدفن: قتلى حلب بين التوثيق والإخفاء (Translation of the original interview from English to Arabic)
العالم كبنية سياسية نافية: مفهوم ياسين الحاج صالح عن المنفى

Contact him at: [email protected] or [email protected]