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...Joel Beinin Copyright © August 1989 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1989 Henri Curiel and the Egyptian Communist Movement Joel Beinin Gilles Perrault, A Man Apart: The Life of Hmri Curiel, Vol. 1, translated from...

...Hanan Hammad This essay analyzes how the Egyptian press covered the Iranian Revolution and the Khomeini regime in 1978-81. It discusses which issues related to the revolution and the revolutionary regime were covered, as well as the attitudes of different groups of Egyptian politicians...

...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...

... 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...

... nationalism and her dedication to anticolonialism in ways that allow us to appreciate the geopoli- tics infusing A Raisin in the Sun and Les blancs. In a 1952 article, “Egyptian People 196 Radical History Review Fight for Freedom,” she applauded the anti-imperialist initiatives of a burgeoning...

... Lavie‘s The Poetics of Milita y Occupation: Mzeina Allegories of Bedouin Identity Under Israeli and Egyptian Rule. My aim was to answer the question, can the models of cultural encounters discussed in our class be applied to a context where the West is not one of the key protagonists? Lavie...

... 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...

... in which the cerebral hemorrhage that I experienced in 1997 transformed both my artistic process and the content and style of the work itself. Next, we examine non-Western art about medicine, including Egyptian Fayum paintings, the tradition of Ethiopian medical scrolls, and Tibetan medical paint...

...’ tombs in a valley adjacent to the actual Valley of the Kings. Just last year, Theodor Abt, president of the Zurich-based Society of the Friends of Egyptian Tombs of the Pharaohs, announced that Egypt had accepted his or- ganization’s proposal to divert tourists away from the crum- bling...

... (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...

..., and Yugoslavia, expressing disdain for Tito’s market socialism and accusing Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser of heading a revolution the essen- tially moderate outlook of which could be confirmed by the small num- ber of wealthy Egyptians compelled to flee. A few months after returning to Havana...

... in Asia, that they migrated in very ancient times to North Africa, whether from fear or ambition, just as a great number of Bedouin Arabs would later migrate from the Egyptian desert to the [lands of the] Hammadid state [in the eleventh-century central Maghrib...

... (The Egyptian Boycott of Israel, 1949–1956). n.p., 2005 . al-Durayni Abdel Mu’ti . Dawr Misr fi al-Muqata’a al-‘Arabiya li al-Muntajat al-Suhyunia fi Filastin, 1945–1948 (The Role of Egypt in the Arab Boycott of Zionist Products in Palestine, 1945–1948). Cairo : Jeraisy Printing , 2004 . al...

... uncomfortable before a non-Western audience, particularly in a country where the Greek presence had proven important for centuries, a fact vivified by interwar Egyptian nationalism, and in a room where many were strongly aware of the impor- tance of Hellenism in Islamic thought. Was this awareness...

... an important role to play in the emer- gence of a world order that would be based on humanitarian principles. Africa had been connected to such transformations in the past, in the shaping of Egyptian and Greek civilizations, as a font of world religions and providing...

... cast of characters and movements seemed all but moribund, and that a blinkered optimist might even be prepared to pronounce terrorism itself dead (after all, Carlos the Jackal, Abimael Guzmán of Peru’s Shining Path, the Egyptian sheik Omar Abdul Rahman...

... discusses Egyptian feminism and its connections to nationalism. Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot contributes to our understanding of these links by drawing a picture of the "revolutionary gentlewomen" in Egypt earlier in this century. All of these authors establish the fact that women have con...

... considers the ways that personal and national narratives of the Egyptian revolution have been constructed and explores how social media has informed activism in Egypt as an organizational tool and communication channel with the outside world. “Radical Histories in Digital Culture” closes...

... the construction of the dam reshaped water policy in Egypt. She argues that the design phase of the massive dam project served to lay the hydrological under- pinning of Egyptian water policy throughout the twentieth century. For Cookson-­ Hills, local knowledge about water and irrigation took a backseat...

... to note that travelers from Victorian Britain often expressed the view, as they entered the Mediterranean reaches of Europe, that they were already in Africa or the Orient. In fact, as the Egyptian novelist Ahdaf Soueif has wisely reminded us in response...