Michael Kennedy

"Since religious force is nothing other than the collective and anonymous force of the clan, and since this can be represented in the mind only in the form of the totem, the totemic emblem is like the visible body the god." - Emile Durkheim

EXHIBITS:

"Refugees of Memory" Sawy Cultural Center - Cairo, Egypt. May 2009. Curator.

"Between the Walls" Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art - Cairo, Egypt. April 2008. Co-exhibitor with Philip Rizk.

"Egypt: Life in a Picture" Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art - Cairo, Egypt. December 2008. Co-exhibitor.

REVIEWS:

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9509.shtml http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=13276 http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/926/ee1.htm

Also featured on BBC radio and Voice of America

PUBLICATIONS:

"Whispers from Al-Fara'a" photo feature in American Anthropological Association News - January, 2009. http://aaanet.org/publications/articles.cfm

"Prison is for Men: Remembering Al-Fara'a" photo essay in Surfacing - (forthcoming, April 2009)

"Did Egypt, Doing Sinai: A Scuba Diver's Labor and Leisure in Dahab" in Go Down Moses: A Photo Book on South Sinai - (forthcoming, October 2009)

"The Katameya Boogie Woogie: Mondrian and Mashrabeya at AUC" in Cairo Papers for the Social Sciences - (forthcoming, fall 2009)