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Workers Resting: Reclaiming Rest and Idleness as Resistance in Modern Egyptian Art and Politics2025

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Go to Thresholds Website  ↗︎  This article examines Hamed Owais’s 1975 painting Workers Resting as a subversive critique of labor exploitation in Egypt. It explores how representations of rest in Egyptian art, from colonial to post-independence eras, have shaped understandings of dignity, resistance, and social struggle.
Place of Publication Forthcoming in Thresholds: 53 Idle, Eds. Joshua Tan and Mingjia Chen, MIT Press, 2025. CategoryCriticism & Academic Writing