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...Ziad Fahmy This article analyzes how Egyptian nationalists utilized a European propaganda campaign aimed at combating and delegitimizing British colonial rule. In particular, it focuses on Ya'qub Sannu”s (1839-1912) and Mustafa Kamil's (1874-1908) political activities in late-nineteenth- to early...

...Mona Russell Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2002 Competing, Overlapping, and Contradictory Agendas: Egyptian Education Under British Occupation, 1882-1922 Mona Russell Education is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, state was attempting to foster...

...Paul Sedra The Challenge of Political Islam: Non-Muslims and the Egyptian State Scott Rachel M. Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2010 xiii + 277 pp. , $65.00 (cloth) , $24.95 (paper) © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011...

... was later canonized in Egyptian academia, so that Egypt's Ottoman history was defined as beginning in 1517 and ending in 1798. However, the vagaries of Egypt's relationship with Istanbul meant that this periodization was neither obvious nor uncontested. The purpose of this article is to compare evolving...

...Karima Laachir Egyptian filmmakers have braved the issue of religious tension since the beginning of the new millennium occasioned by the rise in religious violence between the two communities. Hassan and Morqos (2008) is the first popular film to address the issue of sectarian tensions directly...

... the Egyptian revolution (from its beginning in January 2011 to arguably its end in the aftermath of the events in Rab’a in August 2013) came in the creation—the doing—of art rather than the actual artwork itself. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 revolution art Egypt References...

...Mostafa Hussein Abstract This article explores Jewish spaces in Cairo as repositories of memory and their role in shaping a collective understanding of the Jewish past among non-Jewish Egyptians. By examining these sites through the perspectives of engaged observers, it uncovers their multifaceted...

...Eric Schewe This article examines the consolidation of a regime of government-subsidized wheat bread in Egypt during the Second World War, in tandem with the development of the Egyptian state of emergency and a military courts system. It investigates how landowner resistance and fertilizer...

...Liat Kozma In the late 1920s and early 1930s, British and Egyptian officials, medical doctors, and the Egyptian press reiterated that country was plagued by “white drugs”: cocaine and heroin. Kozma’s article demonstrates how, in addition to presenting drug consumption as a social problem, discourse...

... on a provocative manifesto published in 1937 by an Egyptian writer Ismaʿil Ahmad Adham, which called for a godless universe. Adham's challenge to established religions is framed within a broader historical and intellectual context. It raises the following questions: How unique is Adham's atheism in the Egyptian...

...Nancy Y. Reynolds Abstract As the Nasserist state built a large hydroelectric dam in the south of Egypt in the early 1960s, Egyptian botanists undertook salvage surveys of the area to be flooded behind the dam, known as historic Nubia. Scientists in these surveys searched for a type of palm tree...

...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...

... of reasoning in legal opinions authored by Islamic scholars, notably Yusuf al-Qaradawi, at the time of the Egyptian Revolution (2011). This text analyzes also the relationship between interiority and exteriority in ethical practices enabled by these legal options and exemplified by the assessment...

...Nermeen Mouftah Mouftah’s article explores Egyptian anxieties about ignorance and how the January 2011 uprising brought new urgency to calls for managing it. In post-Mubarak Egypt, literacy activism became a major platform from which to “continue the revolution.” Drawing on ethnographic research...

...Samera Esmeir Abstract At the turn of the sixteenth century, Egyptian polymath Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti compiled a study about earthquakes he titled Kashf al-salsala ‘an wasf al-zalzala ( Revealing the Chain of Echoes/Meaning in the Description of Earthquakes ; shortened to Zalzala ). Arguing...

... into what Michel Foucault termed the “modern episteme.” This is also the period when Egyptian scholar al-Ṭahṭāwī spent about five years in Paris as the spiritual guide of a mission of students sent by the Ottoman governor Meḥmed ʿAlī to train in the new sciences, before returning to Egypt to play a central...

...Marilyn Booth Comparing He-Yen Jhen’s work to that of her Egyptian contemporary Malak Hifni Nasif allows lateral thinking across Asian and African societies on how feminists articulated their stances with regard to male counterparts in their own societies, as well as the shifting gender...

... to shed tears in the future. Secular Egyptians tend to dismiss such weeping as insincere, but so, too, do many participants in the piety movement in a specific context: on-camera weeping. Drawing on fieldwork with Islamic television preachers and their followers in Cairo, this article explores how...

... to the proprietorship of the Such a focus upon Egyptian nationalists’ appro- Egyptologists, the hardy, dedicated folk who had priation of Egyptology as a symbolic means by long remained “intensely interested” in the world of which to bolster political agendas, although war- the ancient Egyptians, despite...

... to media reports, immediately nary public in which men and women, upper and following Fawzy’s performance, a man brandishing lower class, and urban and rural Egyptians existed a piece of broken glass approached the dancer and together, blurring assumed gender, class, and spatial viciously slit her...