Cairo's synagogues shed new light on the transformation Egyptian society and its Jewish community underwent from 1875 to the present Sacred Places Tell Tales is the previously untold history of Egyptian Jewry and the ways in which Cairo's synagogues historically functioned as active institutions in the social lives of these Jews. Historian Yoram ......
Justice, Arabic Literature, and the Colonial Archive
Over the decades of the nineteenth century, Egypt changed dramatically, from a minor Ottoman province to a major player in global markets and a de facto British colonial territory. Integral to this transformation was legal reform: the Islamic system was replaced by laws adapted from the French Napoleonic code, edited by international committees, ......
Justice, Arabic Literature, and the Colonial Archive
Over the decades of the nineteenth century, Egypt changed dramatically, from a minor Ottoman province to a major player in global markets and a de facto British colonial territory. Integral to this transformation was legal reform: the Islamic system was replaced by laws adapted from the French Napoleonic code, edited by international committees, ......
An analysis of the growing visibility of nonreligion in Egypt. Egypt's 2011 Uprising, while often perceived as a failed revolution, nonetheless nonetheless had durable social effects. Among these has been a rise in expressing atheism and agnosticism, especially among educated and affluent youth-the country's future leaders. An intimate ......
UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology
Flooded Pasts examines a world famous yet critically underexamined event-UNESCO's International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia (1960-80) - to show how the project, its genealogy, and its aftermath not only propelled archaeology into the postwar world but also helped to "recolonize" it. In this book, William Carruthers asks how postwar ......
Two years after cracking the hieroglyphic code through the word Ramses on the Rosetta Stone, Jean-Francois Champollion embarked on an expedition to Egypt on 31 July 1828.
Theater, Identity, and Political Culture in Cairo, 1869-1930
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, during the "protectorate" period of British occupation in Egypt - theaters and other performance sites were vital for imagining, mirroring, debating, and shaping competing conceptions of modern Egyptian identity. Central figures in this diverse spectrum were the effendis, an emerging class of ......
Merchants and Market Governance in Nineteenth-Century Egypt
When Egypt's markets opened to private capital in the 1840s, a new infrastructure of commercial laws and institutions emerged. Egypt became the site of profound legal experimentation, and the resulting commercial sphere reflected the political contestations among the governors of Egypt, European consulates, Ottoman rulers, and a growing number of ......
