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... of the Egyptian revolution and offers detailed accounts of the events. This review also explores the common central theme in both books: the role that new social media play as new activist tools in Egypt and how Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites function as organizational means and communication...

...Claire Cookson-Hills Contemporary Egyptian regulation of the Nile is a direct outgrowth of the traditions of British imperialism. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the British extended their military and political occupation of Egypt to the physical regulation of the river...

...), and the spiritual godfather of the Communist party of the Sudan and its first leader, ‘Abd al-Khaliq Mahjub. Although he renounced the Italian citizenship held by his family and took Egyptian citizenship upon reaching his majority in 1935, he was exiled from Egypt as a foreigner in 1950 as punishment...

... because the Egyptian president, Anwar Sadat, had invited the deposed Shah to spend his final days in Egypt. One student lost his life and dozens were arrested when demonstrators against both the Shah and Sadat were confronted by riot police. News of the protests did not appear in the official...

..., smiles, and qualificatory asides were revealing enough. For what may have passed off in Germany had a different articu- lation in Egypt. Habermas’s assumption of the West’s automatic ownership of texts generated by Greek philosophers just across the Mediterranean seemed a little...

... is noticeably avoided in contem- porary Berber activist literature where the name tamazgha, instead, denotes the whole “Amazigh land” (extending from the Canary Isles to Siwa in western Egypt, and from the Mediterranean to the sub-Saharan fringe...

...- peans, and Americans, historians and anthropologists, sociologists, and political scientists. The geographical scope is equally wide, rang- ing from Morocco to China. Inevitably some areas (such as Iran, Egypt, and Turkey) and subjects (legal and traditional constraints on women, for example...

... in their American territories at the end of the eigh- teenth century were as central as metropolitan interests in fueling a new wave of expansion in India and North Africa. Liberal France sought to adjust to the loss of Saint-Domingue by founding a new colony first in Egypt and then Algeria, free from...

... on the subject of women’s movements in Egypt in connection with the rise of nationalism in response to the British occupation. This is a subject about which I learned a great deal and TEACHING ”ISLAM & THE WEST”/145 plan on reading more about in the future. I have come...

... of states against foreign enemies, such as the bomb- ing campaign in Egypt organized by Israeli military intelligence in 1954, or Israel’s hijacking of a Syrian civilian airliner in 1954 in order to obtain hostages to trade for captured spies. A seventh category...

... is the editor of a forthcom- ing book, “Trends and Transformations in International Relations since 1945.” John T. Chalcraft is a lecturer in the history of the modern Middle East in the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He works on Egypt and Lebanon, history...

... Napoleonic campaign in Egypt with a French soldier’s diary of the same time and place.3 Our discussions ranged from trying to understand the humor of a particular moment, to the political implications of empty space in visual and textual material, to the ways in 10...

... (Antoinette Burton on England, Margot Badran on Egypt, Cheryl Johnson-Odim and Nina Emma Mba on Nigeria) or with a regional focus (Francesca Miller on Latin America) also touched on transnational connections: English women’s dealings with Indian women, Egyptian feminists in the international women’s...

... are rapidly made redundant through planned obsolescence. Hossein Khosrowjah’s review of Wael Ghonim’s Revolution 2.0 and Tweets from Tahrir, edited by Nadia Idle and Alex Nunns, examines different accounts of the popular anti-­Mubarak uprising in Egypt in January and February 2011. His review...

... perspective, providing a reading of the past that may help reframe how we think about one of the most significant natural resources in our world. We have included essays on waste management in India, dam building in nineteenth-­century Egypt, municipal water policy in Paris, and the contested water...

..." (Egypt's King Faruq? Husni Zaim, the Syrian dictator?) in the region. Without proper documentation, he has the Prime Minister "rejoicing deep in his heart" at the refugees' flight, and, in later years, trouncing on Bevin's grave.6 Dayan comes in for even harsher treatmen 1: "heavy-handed, devious...

... tended to focus on relations with the United States or Western European states, Hanan Hammad’s essay makes a major contribution to our broader understanding of the coverage of the revolution in other parts of the Middle East by focusing on com- mentaries in the Egyptian press (with Egypt also...

..., postmodernists will be pleased to note RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW 50:244-249 1991 ABUSABLE PAST/245 that Egypt has at last entered-or is it re-entered?-the Age of the Simulacrum. Plans are now underway to construct a life-size replica of the pharaohs...

..., whether in Israel, Egypt, or Iran. All too often students predicate their discussion and analysis of the class material on current events. This proclivity can lead instructors to interpret and, in fact, mold the past so that it has contemporary relevance. Given...

... of the editorial committee of Middle East Report. His most recent book is Was the Red Flag Flying There? Marxist Politics and the Arab-Israeli Conflict in Egypt and Israel, 1948-1965. Josh Brown is a member of the RHR editorial collective and is art director of the American Social History Project...