Timothy Mitchell

Bio:

Timothy Mitchell, a contributing editor to Middle East Report, teaches politics and Middle Eastern studies at New York University.

Articles by this Author


Dreamland: The Neoliberalism of Your Desires	Neoliberalism is a triumph of the political imagination. Its achievement is double: While narrowing the window of political debate, it promises from this window a prospect without limits. On the one hand, it frames public discussion in the...	MER210
Worlds Apart	Ayman wanted a job in tourism. But he did badly on his high-school language exams and spent two years at a school in Luxor, across the river from his village, struggling to master enough rudimentary English and German to get into the hotel...	MER196
America's Egypt	Open almost any study of Egypt produced by an American or an international development agency and you are likely to find it starting with the same simple image. The question of Egypt’s economic development is almost invariably introduced...	MER169