Sarah Rifky

Writer and curator, co-founder of Beirut (2012-15), an artists’ institution in Cairo. She is co-editor of Positionen: Zeitgenössische Künstler aus der Arabischen Welt (2013) and author of The Going Insurrection (2012). She is currently pursuing a PhD in history, theory and criticism at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Absurd History, Absolute Future Sarah Rifky · February 2021 Ten years after the fall of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, how can we think of the legacy of the “Arab Spring” in a country ruled with an iron hand by Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi? For Sarah Rifky, it is necessary to look for it in the “future pasts” of the revolution, that is to say in the ideas that preceded (…)