Workers Resting: Reclaiming Rest and Idleness as Resistance in Modern Egyptian Art And Politics Unavailable

Manar Moursi is a Ph.D. candidate at MIT. Her dissertation examines Egypt’s modern coastal development, focusing on its built environment, infrastructure, and representation in art and film through eco-critical, feminist, and post-colonial lenses. Her publications include contributions to Leisurescapes (Routledge 2022), Pan-Arab Modernism (Actar 2021), Modern Architecture Kuwait (Niggli 2017), and Thresholds 38 (MIT Press, 2010). Manar is also an artist and architect. She has taught architecture at the Universities of Toronto and Waterloo.