OpenDemocracy runs trio of stories on research in Egypt during political upheaval

OpenDemocracy has a three-for-one deal on Egypt stories: AUC Sociology Professor Mona Abaza held separate interviews with SOAS Research Fellow Leila Zaki Chakravarti and founder of the Cairo Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences Karim-Yassin Goessinger about the obstacles researchers face in Egypt, particularly during times of political upheaval. Jack Shenker, meanwhile, writes about how the murder of Italian researcher Giulio Regeni both shattered the feeling of invincibility foreigners in Egypt felt “by the privilege of our foreign passports and in many cases the particular fact of our whiteness,” and highlighted the international community’s complicity in what he says is evidence of Egypt’s state violence.