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I have grown accustomed to gradually seeing religious festivities being disemboweled of their meaning, whether it’s the entertainment-saturated Ramadan, or the hyper-commercialized Christmas. But the Islamic Eid al-Adha (Feast of the Sacrifice) stands out starkly, as it has been built on an all-encompassing annual spectacle, with the blood of sheep and cattle running through the […]
Author Archives: Amro Ali
Amro Ali is a lecturer in political sociology and Andrew W Mellon postdoctoral fellow at the American University in Cairo.