The ordeals of the Egyptian body: On imprisonment, exile, and death

Egyptian writer and researcher Ahmad Abdelhalim focuses on political sociology and body studies. He is the author of six works spanning literature and research, exploring themes of the body, prison, society, politics, and exile.The structural shifts sweeping through the Egyptian state since the summer of 2013 mark a profound sociological and philosophical turning point. With authoritarian rule under Abdel Fattah al-Sisi evolving from traditional sovereignty into Foucault’s ''biopolitics'' and Achille Mbembe’s ''necropolitics.''These authoritarian strategies did not stop at reshaping the public sphere through outright oppression, rather they pierced the very depth of the Egyptian body, treating it as a laboratory to produce submissive subjects, forcing an entire generation's consciousness into a forced...