...Zeinab Abul-Magd This essay attempts to deconstruct myths about the Egyptian revolution. It reveals that it is far from being a peaceful and Cairo-centered revolt made by globalized, middle-class youth. It argues that the US “empire” and its media apparatus have created such myths about Egypt’s...

... into the blood of the Egyptian national identity. Thus, this essay deals with modernity in translation in the postcolonial zone and contributes to the effort to highlight the artistic activity in the Muslim world in the twentieth century—a century that has been mainly defined as Western and usually excludes any...

...Saba Mahmood; Peter G. Danchin A central claim of the right to religious liberty is to protect the right of individuals and groups, particularly religious minorities, to practice their beliefs freely without state coercion and threat of discrimination. Through a comparative reading of Egyptian...

...Amy Austin Holmes It is never just rage against injustice that leads to mass uprisings, but also the millenarian belief in something better. The better life that the Egyptian and Turkish people fought for has not yet and may never materialize. A fleeting glimpse of an alternative future...

... only a small role in mobilizing the demonstrations and occupations of public space that were the emblematic expressions of the 2011 Arab uprisings. The Egyptian and other Arab popular uprisings were not the result of proliferating NGOs or “building civil society.” Rather, they were the consequence...

...Karim Medhat Ennarah The 2011 Egyptian revolution created an unlikely intersection in interests between a stumbling state apparatus and a socially powerful and politically conservative movement: the Muslim Brotherhood. The Brotherhood, constituting the critical mass of the Islamist bloc in Egypt...

... Barbara Harlow has moved back into the house, lodging there as the permanent custo­ dian of his nail. The story of mismar Goha was used by the Egyptian journalist Fikri Abaza in an editorial in the 1950s to describe the Egyptian reaction to the British offer to evacuate Egypt, on the condi­ tion...

..., and Pan-Africanism, very much part of the global socialist imaginary dominant at that moment. In many ways the Nasserist project predated Nasser; it was formed in the 1950s but drew on anti-colonial mobilization from across Egyptian society as well as the broader Middle East and North Africa. Because...

...Langdon Elsbree Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 Huck Finn on the Nile Langdon Elsbree While serving as a Fulbright teacher of American literature in Cairo during 1966-67, I found four lines of Emily Dickinson's increasingly applicable (although I suspect some of my Egyptian...

... of this network dates back to the late nineteenth century and was closely linked with the Anglo-Egyptian conquest of the Sudan in the late 1890s. Following the defeat of the Mahdist state, the railway system gradu- ally expanded to different parts of the country. By the 1960s, the Sudan Railways system...

.... The Arabization of modern art became for all Arab artists an essential part of the search for national visual identities. The Egyptian Experience Prince Yusuf Kamal’s initiative to establish the art school in Cairo followed nationalist thinking, which emphasized the need for education. Despite...

... of the British occupation of the Nile Valley is of vital concern to their specialized studies, British rule in Egypt has attracted the attention of few historians. Controversy rages over the role of Egypt in the European partition of Africa, while numer­ ous works dissect the development of Egyptian nationalism...

..., British rule in Egypt has attracted the attention of few historians. Controversy rages over the role of Egypt in the European partition of Africa, while numer­ ous works dissect the development of Egyptian nationalism, but the his­ tory of Britain in Egypt has been left to the proconsuls themselves who...

... reached at the 20th Congress of the Soviet Com- munist Party, Arab Communists attached con- siderable weight to alliances with Arab nation- alists, whose leadership they recognized. The Egyptian...

... as a phenomenon within the African continent. In places such as Egypt and other parts of North Africa, it is possible to trace instances of mod- ernism in many aspects of art and society to as early as the beginning of the twentieth century. At that time, a new generation of Egyptian artists, driven...

...-European ele­ ments in the Greek language and culture were largely later Semitic and Egyptian superimpositions on an Indo-European base. Possibly these were the result of conquest and elite settlement around the Aegean, and certainly they came from trade and diplomatic contacts between Egypt and the Levant...

... a venerable Egyptian priest. Plutarch, who had sources lost to us, names the priest Sonchis the Saite and calls him most learned of all his colleagues. So far the backgrounds of the story are undoubtedly historical. The Pharaoh Amasis reigned at Sais from 569 or 570 to 525 B. C. Solon died in 558 B. C. Ten...

... in her endeavor for a paramount position in their holy land. She sought to stock her quiver with an extra ar­ row by the revival of an Egyptian protectorate under her control, as a sequel to the revival of an Egyptian Sultanate when, in December, 1914, the Khedive Abbas Hilmy was de­ posed and replaced...

... matter pivots upons his narrator s negotiation of the labyrinthine mazes of Egyptian and specifically Alexandrian sensuality? In the process, Egypt becomes much more than an exotic backdrop to the Quartet; rather, its geopolitical reality is transformed into a kind of psychic playground upon which...

... fare occasionally with talk about his Egyptian country place and Arabian horses. There is one thrilling section on being shipwrecked in the Red Sea. When in England he is concerned principally with foreign'and Imperial policies, which he views as an outsider with inside information. He records...