Author: Samuli Schielke

Samuli Schielke was born in Helsinki, Finland, in 1972, received his PhD in social sciences from the University of Amsterdam in 2006. He is currently a research fellow at the Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin. His ongoing ethnographic research in Egypt touches on topics of religion and morality, aspiration and frustration, migration and imagination, revolutionary politics and literary lives, class and social mobility. He is author/editor of the books You’ll Be Late for the Revolution (in Arabic, 2011), The Perils of Joy (2012), Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes (with Liza Debevec, 2012), The Global Horizon (with Knut Graw, 2012), In Search of Europe? (with Daniela Swarowsky and Andrea Heister, 2013), and Egypt in the Future Tense (2015). He has co-directed three films: Messages from Paradise #1 (2009) with Daniela Swarowsky, and The Other Side (2010) and The Secret Capital (2013) with Mukhtar Shehata). (Photo by Mahrous Shehata)

Samuli Schielke

Samuli Schielke was born in Helsinki, Finland, in 1972, received his PhD in social sciences from the University of Amsterdam in 2006. He is currently a research fellow at the Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin. His ongoing ethnographic research in Egypt touches on topics of religion and morality, aspiration and frustration, migration and imagination, revolutionary politics and literary lives, class and social mobility. He is author/editor of the books You’ll Be Late for the Revolution (in Arabic, 2011), The Perils of Joy (2012), Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes (with Liza Debevec, 2012), The Global Horizon (with Knut Graw, 2012), In Search of Europe? (with Daniela Swarowsky and Andrea Heister, 2013), and Egypt in the Future Tense (2015). He has co-directed three films: Messages from Paradise #1 (2009) with Daniela Swarowsky, and The Other Side (2010) and The Secret Capital (2013) with Mukhtar Shehata). (Photo by Mahrous Shehata)

Secular Powers and Heretic Undercurrents in a God-Fearing Part of the World

December, 2018 / By Samuli Schielke

We live in a world where the secularisation thesis has been proven wrong, where modernities more often than not are […]

AnthroMob

ANTHROMOB bi-annual workshop 2015

December, 2015 / By Lauren Wagner and Samuli Schielke

In our 2-day workshop – Grounding (Im)mobilities – Embodiment, Ephemera, Ecologies – at the ICS in Lisbon this past September, more than

Essay One-Shots

In defence of our universal double standards

December, 2015 / By Samuli Schielke

The two series of terrorist attacks that hit Paris this year, have given rise to a series of debates and

‘The Other Side’ – Attempted suicide, impossible love and (un)crossed boundaries

May, 2015 / By Samuli Schielke, Mukhtar Shehata and Allegra Lab

This time we are proud to present The Other Side, an enchanting ethnographic film by Mukhtar Shehata and Samuli Schielke.