...Michael J. Reimer The Ottoman sultan was Egypt's titular sovereign until 1914, but in the late nineteenth century some historians of Egypt were already locating the terminus of Ottoman rule in the French invasion (1798) and the inauguration of Mehmet `Ali's government (1805). This periodization was...

...Paul Sedra The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt Omnia El Shakry Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007 xiii + 328 pp., $55.00 (cloth) Duke University Press 2010 The Crypto-Jewish Mashhadis: allow the small...

...James Whidden The Power of Representation: Publics, Peasants, and Islam in Egypt Michael Ezekiel Gasper Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009 294 pp., $55.00 (cloth) Duke University Press 2010 The Crypto-Jewish Mashhadis: allow the small crypto-faith...

...Katarzyna Pieprzak Creative Reckonings: The Politics of Art and Culture in Contemporary Egypt Jessica Winegar Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006 416 pp., 48 illustrations, $70.00 (cloth), $26.95 (paper) Duke University Press 2011 Indo...

...Saad Abi-Hamad This article examines the nature of the colonial state as it existed in Egypt at the turn of the twentieth century. It delves into issues surrounding the multiple societal relations that the colonial state had to maintain to ensure its continued existence. It also considers the very...

...Dyala Hamzah Duke University Press 2007 Nineteenth-Century Egypt as Dynastic Locus of Universality: The History of Muhammad ‘Ali by Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Rajabi...

...Frances S. Hasso Based on analysis of scholarly and primary sources that include July 2011 and January and February 2014 fieldwork in Cairo, this article examines civil as a word with multiple synchronic meanings and shifts in valence in Egypt between January 2011 and July 2013. I argue that civil...

...On Barak Abstract Anwar Sadat's “open door” policy involved the forceful promotion of an American-inspired car society. This essay traces the development of Egypt's motorscape by recounting the first eight decades of automobility in Egypt. Focusing on the 1970s, it suggests that the increasing...

... confrontational sary and tries to make love to his wife, but does not tone to it. The film, due partly to its critical message, succeed. The next day, now himself inflicted, Imam or- was popular in Egypt. It resonated well with the social ders an official survey of those city districts that report mood of the...

... its ruling regarding the required com- dled in nineteenth-century Egypt. I will further ar- pensation. ‘Ali then argued that he could not pay gue that people sometimes confused the two this amount of money, and the court reached a systems, and that their interaction with them was payment...

...Shaun T. Lopez Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2004 The Dangers of Dancing: The Media and Morality in 1930s Egypt SHAUN T. LOPEZ On the night of May 22, 1936, a large crowd filled the time, provided the evidentiary material for the Casino al-Busfur, a...

... rsnfrCio n etne uamdt i otso adlabor. hard of months six impris- to Muhammad instead sentenced and and Masr case Cairo, Majlis for the the prison of in When months ruling time. six the that for aside at ‘Ayda set Egypt oned it in however, body al-Ahkam, judicial Majlis highest reached the al-Ahkam...

...Khaled Fahmy This article studies the difficulties that befall the teaching of the humanities in Egyptian universities. It argues that as is the situation globally, the humanities are in crisis in Egypt. This crisis stems from a complete lack of support by public figures, antiquated pedagogical...

... institutions of higher learning during the Modern Egypt, Cambridge Middle East Library, 23 (Cambridge: same time period. In this chapter Reid paints a picture of the Cambridge University Press, 1990). Pp. xviii + 296. $30. student body, which included a surprising number of west...

... Duke University Press 2013 VARIORUM White Drugs in Interwar Egypt Decadent Pleasures, Emaciated Fellahin, and the Campaign against Drugs Liat Kozma In their ignorance, generations condemn you, but you are worthy of praise, not spite.  — ​“al-­Kukayin,” Ahmad Zaki...

...Joel Gordon Gatekeepers of the Arab Past: History and History Writing in Twentieth-Century Egypt Di-Capua Yoav . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2009 406 pp., $65.00 (cloth) , $36.95 (paper) © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 The Politics of Women’s Rights...

...Lisa Pollard Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt Abugideiri Hibba Farnham, UK : Ashgate Press , 2010 ix + 268 pp. , $119.95 ( cloth ) © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 BOOK REVIEWS The Nation Writ Small: mately...

...Paul Sedra The Struggle for Constitutional Power: Law, Politics, and Economic Development in Egypt Tamir Moustafa Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007 x, 328 pp., $85.00 (cloth) © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Himalayan People’s War: Nepal’s Maoist Rebellion as having a...

...Ziad Fahmy Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics Beth Baron Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007 302 pp., $24.95 (paper) © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Himalayan People’s War: Nepal’s Maoist Rebellion as having a limited impact on the functioning of...

...Nawal El Saadawi; Seemi Ghazi © 1995: South Asia Bulletin 1995 A New Battle for the Women’s Movement in Egypt’ Nawal El Saadawi (Translated from the Arabic by Seemi G hazi)2 Dedication releasing toxic...