Middle East Studies New and Forthcoming Books 2020

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Anthropology Sociology Art history and cultural studies (including film, theater, and music) Egyptology Archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean Ancient history 2 ANTHROPOLOGY & SOCIOLOGY

Migrant Dreams Women in Revolutionary Egypt Egyptian Workers in the Gulf States Gender and the New Geographics of Identity

Samuli Schielke Shereen Abouelnaga

What kind of dreams for a good or better life The 25 January 2011 Egyptian uprising drives labor migrants? What does being a shattered the notion of homogeneity that had migrant worker do to one’s hopes and ambi- characterized state representations of Egypt tions? How does the experience of migration to and Egyptians since 1952. Concomitantly a the Gulf, with its attendant economic and legal profusion of women’s voices arose to further precarities, shape migrants’ particular dreams challenge the state-managed feminism that had of a better life? What do those dreams—be sought to define and carefully circumscribe they realistic and productive, or fantastic and women’s social and civic roles in Egypt. Women unlikely—do to the social worlds of the people in Revolutionary Egypt explores how gender who pursue them, and to their families and in post-Mubarak Egypt came to be rethought, communities back home upon their return? reimagined, and contested. It examines key Based on ten years of ethnographic fieldwork areas of tension between national and gender and conversations with Egyptian men from identities, including gender empowerment mostly low-income rural backgrounds who through art and literature, particularly graffiti migrated as workers to the Gulf, returned and poetry, the disciplining of the body, and the home, and migrated again over a period politics of history and memory. of about a decade, this fine-grained study explores and engages with these questions and A beautifully written, original, and insightful more, as the men reflect on their strivings and “ contribution that transcends existing analysis the dreams they hope to fulfill. of the gendered dimension of protest and revolutionary struggle in Egypt.”—Nadje Al-Ali, SOAS, University of London

Creating Spaces of Hope The Muslim Brothers in Society Young Artists and the New Everyday Politics, Social Action, and Imagination in Egypt Islamism in Mubarak’s Egypt

Caroline Seymour-Jorn Marie Vannetzel

How have different types of artists—studio Based on long-term fieldwork among artists, graffiti artists, musicians and writers— grassroots networks and on interviews with responded personally and artistically to the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (MB) deputies, various stages of political transformation in members, and beneficiaries, this book shows Egypt since the January 25 revolution? What has how the MB operated on a day-to-day basis in the political or social role of art been in these society, through social brokering, constituent periods of transition and uncertainty? What are relations, and popular outreach. How did the aesthetic shifts and stylistic transformations ordinary MB members concretely relate to present in the contemporary Egyptian art world? local populations in the neighborhoods where Based on personal interviews with artists over they lived? What kinds of social services many years of research in Cairo, Caroline Sey- did they deliver? How did they experience mour-Jorn argues that in more recent years these belonging to the MB and what political young artists have turned their creative focus effects did their social action entail? This book increasingly inward, to examine issues having reveals the fragile balances on which the MB’s to do with personal relationships, belonging and political and social action was based and inclusion, and maintaining hope in harsh social, shows how these balances were disrupted political and economic circumstances. after the January 2011 uprising.

The critique and approach employed by Thoroughly evidenced and elegantly “ the author attest to the fact that the 2011 “ crafted.”—Neil Ketchley, author of Egypt in a Revolution has radically subverted traditional Time of Revolution imagination systems.”—Shereen Abouelnaga, Cairo University Read an excerpt | Click to order Read an excerpt | Click to order Hardbound | 208pp. | 20 b&w illus. Hardbound | 344pp. 9789774169748 9789774169625 Dec 2020 | $29.95 | £24.95 | LE300 Dec 2020 | $49.95 | £39.95 4 ANTHROPOLOGY & SOCIOLOGY

Tahrir’s Youth Cairo’s Ultras Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution Resistance and Revolution in Egypt’s Football Culture

Rusha Latif Ronnie Close

January 25, 2011 was a watershed moment The history of Cairo’s football fans is one of for Egypt and a transformative experience for the most poignant narratives of the 25 January the young men and women who changed the 2011 Egyptian uprising. The Ultras Al-Ahly and course of their nation’s history. Tahrir’s Youth the Ultras White Knights fans, belonging to tells the story of the organized youth behind the two main teams, Al-Ahly F.C. and Zama- the mass uprising that brought about the lek F.C respectively, became embroiled in the spectacular collapse of the Mubarak regime. street protests that brought down the Mubarak Who were these activists? What did they want? regime. In the violent turmoil since, the Ultras How did the movement they unleashed shape have been locked in a bitter conflict with the them as it unfolded, and why did it fall short Egyptian security state. Tracing these social of its goals? Drawing on first-hand testimonies, movements to explore their role in the uprising this study offers rich insight into the hopes, and the political dimension of soccer in Egypt, successes, failures, and disillusionments of the Ronnie Close provides a vivid, intimate sense of movement’s leaders. the Ultras’ unique subculture.

Close paints an evocative portrait of the varied and ambiguous roles sports can play in an “ autocracy, where a regime’s reliance on bread and circuses may eventually wear thin in the absence of genuine progress.”—Lisa Anderson, Foreign Affairs

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Bounded Knowledge Western Imaginings Doctoral Studies in Egypt The Intellectual Contest to Define Wahhabism

Edited by Daniele Cantini Rohan Davis

This book provides a fresh, historical analy- Western Imaginings: The Intellectual Contest sis of how doctoral studies evolved in Egypt to Define Wahhabism is an inquiry into how and an ethnographic inquiry into the actual Wahhabism has been understood and repre- conditions of knowledge production in the sented by Western intellectuals, particularly country’s public universities, with focus on the those belonging to the neo-conservative and humanities and social sciences. Although it is liberal traditions. In contrast to the existing commonplace to speak of international collab- literature that treats Wahhabism as a histori- orations in knowledge production, institutional cal phenomenon or a monolithic theological settings and material conditions are so uneven ideology, a literature often written by authors as to make the fiction of equality impossible keen to promote geopolitical interests or to sustain. This book looks closely at how with ideological axes to grind, Davis’s work such academic hierarchies are reinforced in considers Wahhabism as a discursive construct the international context. It also looks at how crafted and popularized by a Western intellec- notions of socially responsible research are tual elite. This study speaks to how and why translated in the particularly Egyptian context: Western intellectuals have chosen to represent how research topics are discussed, how doc- Wahhabism in specific ways, ranging from an toral studies are organized, and how society analysis of the particular rhetorical techniques thinks about research. employed by these intellectuals to a consider- ation of the religious and political beliefs that inspire and motivate their decisions. “A pioneering analysis of doctoral education in “ Egypt.”—Philip G. Altbach, Boston College Read an excerpt | Click to order Read an excerpt | Click to order Hardbound | 264pp. Hardbound | 232pp. 9789774169861 9789774168642 Feb 2021 | $59.95 | £45 | LE750 Mar 2018 | $55 | £39.95 | LE600 6 ANTHROPOLOGY & SOCIOLOGY

Constructions of Masculinity in Manhood Is Not Easy the Middle East and North Africa Egyptian Masculinities through the Life of Literature, Film, and National Discourse Musician Sayyid Henkish

Edited by Mohja Kahf and Nadine Sinno Karin van Nieuwkerk

This edited collection examines constructions of In this in-depth ethnography, Karin van Nieu- both hegemonic and marginalized masculinities wkerk takes the autobiographical narrative of in the MENA region, through literary criticism, Sayyid Henkish, a musician from a long family film studies, discourse analysis, anthropological tradition of wedding performers in Cairo, as a accounts, and studies of military culture. Bring- lens through which to explore changing notions ing together contributors from the disciplines of masculinity in an Egyptian community over of linguistics, comparative literature, sociology, the course of a lifetime. Situating his account cultural studies, queer and gender studies, film within a growing body of literature on gender studies, and history, Constructions of Masculin- that sees masculinity as a lived experience that ity in the Middle East and North Africa spans the changes and is negotiated over time, she shows colonial to the postcolonial eras with emphasis that the challenges faced by Henkish are not on the late twentieth century to the present day. limited to his profession and that his story offers This collective study is a diverse and exciting profound insights into socioeconomic and addition to the literature on gender and societal political changes in Egypt at large and the ways organization at a time when masculinities in the these transformations impact received notions Middle East and North Africa are often essential- of masculinity. ized and misunderstood.

An extraordinary work of meticulous “ scholarship.”—Midwest Book Review

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The Greeks and the Making The Mulid of al-Sayyid al-Badawi of Tanta of Modern Egypt Egypt’s Legendary Sufi Festival

Alexander Kitroeff Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen

The Greeks and the Making of Modern Egypt is Every year, in the Nile Delta, a festival takes the first account of the modern Greek presence place that was for centuries the biggest in the in Egypt from its beginnings during the era of Muslim world: the mulid of al-Sayyid Ahmad Muhammad Ali to its final days under Nasser. al-Badawi of Tanta. This book tells for the first It casts a critical eye on the reality and myths time the history of the mulid, which for long surrounding the complex and ubiquitous Greek overshadowed even the pilgrimage to Mecca. community in Egypt by examining the Greeks’ Organized by Sufi brotherhoods, it had, by the legal status, their relations with the country’s 19th century, grown to become the scene of rulers, their interactions with both elite and a boisterous festival that excited the curiosity ordinary Egyptians, their economic activities, of European travelers. Islamic modernists and their contacts with foreign communities, their Western observers criticized the cult of al-Bad- ties to their Greek homeland, and their commu- awi, reducing it to a muddle of superstitions nity life, which included a rich and celebrated and even a resurgence of anti-Islamic pagan literary culture. practices. Mayeur-Jaouen shows that the mulid does not stand in opposition to religious ortho- doxy, but rather acts as a mirror to Egyptian The single best book on the role of the one- Islam, uniting ordinary believers, peasants, “ time flourishing Greek community in Egypt, ulama, and heads of Sufi brotherhoods in a by one of the world’s leading scholars of the shared spiritual fervor. modern Greek diaspora.”—Robert Vitalis, University of Pennsylvania A masterpiece of historical anthropology.” “ —Adam Mestyan, Duke University Read an excerpt | Click to order Read an excerpt | Click to order Hardbound | 264 pp. | 12 b&w illus. Hardbound | 256 pp. | 10 b&w illus. 9789774168895 9789774168925 Apr 2019 | $49.95 | £35 | LE500 Jul 2019 | $49.95 | £40 | LE600 8 HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY

Contesting Antiquity in Egypt Description of Egypt Archaeologies, Museums, and Notes and Views in Egypt and Nubia, the Struggle for Identities from 1825–28 World War I to Nasser Edward William Lane Edited and with an introduction by Donald Malcolm Reid Jason Thomposon

The sensational discovery in 1922 of Tutankha- The great nineteenth-century British traveler mun’s tomb, close on the heels of Britain’s Edward William Lane (1801–76) was the author declaration of Egyptian independence, acceler- of a number of highly influential works. In ated the growth in Egypt of both Egyptology as a 1831, publication of one of his greatest works, formal discipline and of ‘pharaonism’—popular Description of Egypt was dropped, mainly for interest in ancient Egypt—as an inspiration in financial reasons, by the publishing firm of John the struggle for full independence. Emphasiz- Murray. The manuscript was sold to the British ing the three decades from 1922 until Nasser’s Library by Lane’s widow in 1891, and was revolution in 1952, this compelling follow-up salvaged for publication as a hardcover book by to Whose Pharaohs? looks at the ways in which Jason Thompson, nearly 170 years later. Now Egypt developed its own archaeologies— available in paperback, this book takes the form Islamic, Coptic, and Greco-Roman, as well as of a journey through Egypt from north to south, the more dominant ancient Egyptian. with descriptions of all the ancient monuments and contemporary life that Lane explored along the way.

This book is a major accomplishment and I Jason Thompson’s exact and dedicated edition would recommend it to all those interested in deserves much praise.”—ASTENE Bulletin “ Egyptian antiquity as well as modern Egypt.” “ —Kenneth M. Cuno, Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities

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Truths and Lies in the Middle East Farewell Shiraz Memoirs of a Veteran Journalist, An Iranian Memoir of Revolution 1952–2012 and Exile

Eric Rouleau Cyrus Kadivar

Born in Cairo to an Egyptian Jewish family, In Farewell Shiraz, Kadivar tells the story of his Eric Rouleau was one of the most celebrated family and childhood against the tumultuous journalists of his generation, a status he owed backdrop of twentieth-century Iran, from the to his extraordinary career, which began when 1905–1907 Constitutional Revolution to the the director of Le Monde charged him in the fall of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, before early 1960s with covering the Near and Middle presenting accounts of his meetings with key East. Rouleau was a chief witness to the wars of witnesses to the Shah’s fall and the rise of Kho- 1967 and 1973 and was to meet all the major meini. Each of the people interviewed provides players, including Nasser, Levi Ashkol, Moshe a richly detailed picture of the momentous Dayan, Golda Meir, Yasser Arafat, Ariel Sharon, events that took place and the human drama and Anwar Sadat, painting striking portraits of behind them. each. More than a memoir, his book presents a history, lived from the inside, of the Israel– Palestine conflict.

The appearance of the autobiography of this Presents a rich and intricately textured account remarkable journalist, diplomat—and human of the end of the Pahlavi era and its complicat- “ being—is an event that many of those con- “ ed but oft misunderstood aftermath.”—John J. cerned with world affairs have been awaiting Metzler, UN correspondent, World Tribune with eager anticipation.”—Noam Chomsky

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Traces Life Is More Beautiful than Paradise A Memoir A Jihadist’s Own Story

Gamal al-Ghitani Khaled al-Berry

One of Egypt’s greatest contemporary In 1986, when this memoir opens, Khaled writers, Gamal al-Ghitani (1945–2015) was al-Berry is a typical fourteen-year-old boy in born into a family of modest means in the Asyut in Upper Egypt. Soon, his love of soccer Egyptian countryside. He trained as a carpet draws him into the orbit of members of a radi- maker before turning his attention to writing, cal Islamist group, university students who play publishing over a dozen novels and several the game regularly on a pitch near his home. collections of short stories. This haunting Attracted at first by the image of the group memoir weaves together a series of vignettes as “strong Muslims,” al-Berry’s involvement in a style that mimics the uneven, discontinu- develops until he finds himself deeply commit- ous nature of memory itself. These fragments, ted to its beliefs and implicated in its activities. or traces, are summoned from across the This ends when, in his third year at university, span of a singular lifetime, from al-Ghitani’s he is arrested on campus by the police and rural birthplace in Upper Egypt to Cairo, to thrown in jail. Prison and a return to life on the Arab world and beyond. These memories, the outside lead to his eventual alienation from and al-Ghitani’s musings on memory’s own radical Islam. finitude and mutability, make Traces both memoir and a meditation on memory itself, in all its inscrutable workings and inevitable betrayals. The author’s refusal to demonize and his rela- tive objectivity in telling the story is precisely An exquisite, sensitive, and beautiful “ what makes this book authentic and extremely translation.”—Sinan Antoon, author of important.”—The Huffington Post “ The Book of Collateral Damage

Egypt’s Foreign Policy in Times of Crisis Maadi My Testimony The Making and Unmaking of a Cairo Suburb, 1878–1962 Ahmed Aboul Gheit Annalise J.K. DeVries

Ahmed Aboul Gheit served as Egypt’s In the early years of the twentieth century, a minister of foreign affairs under President group of Egypt’s real-estate and transporta- Hosni Mubarak from 2004 until 2011. In tion moguls embarked on the creation of a this compelling memoir, he takes us inside new residential establishment south of Cairo. the momentous years of his time in office, They called the new community Maadi, revealing the complexities and challenges of after the ancient village that had long stood foreign-policy decision-making and the intri- on the eastern bank of the Nile. This book cacies of interpersonal relations at the highest explores Maadi’s foundation and development, levels of international diplomacy. He paints a identifying how foreign economic privileges vivid picture of Egyptian–U.S. relations during were integral to fashioning its idyllic qualities. the years that followed September 11 and the Annalise DeVries shows how Maadi’s history 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq. Palestinian–Israeli offers a fresh perspective on the global eco- negotiations, U.S. assistance to Egypt, and nomic influences that shaped modern Egyptian NGO funding get full play in his account, as history, as they helped configure not only do negotiations over the sharing of the Nile the country’s politics but also the social and waters; Africa; UN Security Council reform; cultural practices of the well-to-do. and relations with Iran and the Gulf states.

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The Regency of Tunis, 1535–1666 Neslishah Genesis of an Ottoman Province The Last Ottoman Princess in the Maghreb

Leïla Temime Blili Murat Bardakçı

The first Ottoman conquest of Tunis took place Born in Istanbul, Neslishah Sultan (1912–2012) in 1534 under the command of Kheireddine was the granddaughter of Sultan Vahiddedin. Barbarossa. However, it was not until 1574 In 1924, the imperial family was sent into that the Ottomans finally wrested control of exile. In 1940, on her marriage to Prince the former Hafsid Ifriqiya (modern-day Tunisia), Abdel Moneim, the son of the last khedive of retaining it until the French occupation of Tuni- Egypt, she became a princess of the Egyptian sia in 1881. The Regency of Tunis was thus born royal family. When in 1952 her husband was as an imperial province, and individuals origi- appointed regent for Egypt’s infant king, she nating from throughout the vast territory of the became the country’s first lady, until the aboli- Ottoman Empire settled there, rapidly creating a tion of the monarchy in 1953. Exile followed, new elite via marriage with women from local this time from Egypt, after the couple faced notable families. This book studies the former charges of treason. This account of Neslishah’s Hafsid territory’s position within the Ottoman extraordinary life is also the story of the end of world and the social developments that accom- two powerful dynasties thirty years apart. panied the genesis of the united Regency of Tunis until the death of Hamouda Pasha. Princess Neslishah’s life was post-imperial, but. . . no less a life of dynastic destiny—one filled “ with the intrigue [and] unexpected twists and dangers of Ottoman history.”—Theo Saunders, Royalty magazine

Zikrayat An Artist in Abydos Eight Jewish Women Remember Egypt The Life and Letters of Myrtle Broome

Nayra Atiya Lee Young

Between 1948 and 1957, a period that wit- Myrtle Florence Broome (1888–1978) was born nessed two wars between Egypt and Israel, to middle-class parents in London. In 1927 60,000 members of Egypt’s 75,000-strong she was invited to join the excavations at Qau Jewish population left the country, compelled el-Kebir as an artist for the British School of by growing hostility to them because of their Archaeology in Egypt, later traveling, in 1929, presumed links to Zionism, economic insecu- to work at the Seti Temple in Abydos for the rity, and after 1956, overt expulsion. Decades Egypt Exploration Society. Broome spent eight later, during the 1980s and 1990s, the personal seasons there, copying the painted scenes in reminiscences of eight Egyptian Jewish women, the Temple and leaving invaluable renditions of presently residents of New York who had left some of ancient Egypt’s most beautiful monu- Egypt, were meticulously collected by Nayra ments. In this remarkable account, Lee Young Atiya. Zikrayat movingly captures the essence of tells the story of Broome largely through her let- these women’s characters and experiences, the ters to her parents. These vividly capture life in fabric of their day-to-day lives, and the complex the villages, the traditions of the local people, mood of those times in Egypt. In doing so she the work of artisans, and festivals, ceremonies, brings to life the ties that bind all Egyptians, and music. offering a glimpse into a now vanished world— and the heartbreak of exile and migration. A brilliant chronicle of an under-recognized female artist pursuing her dream during the “ golden age of excavation in Egypt.”—Melinda Hartwig, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University Read an excerpt | Click to order Read an excerpt | Click to order Paperback | 376pp. Hardbound | 248pp. 9789774169298 34 b&w and 26 col. illus. | 9789774169922 Sep 2019 | $24.95 | £19.95 | LE300 Jan 2021 | $35 | £29.95 | LE450 14 ARABIC LANGUAGE LEARNING ARABIC LANGUAGE LEARNING

Yalla! Rooted in the Body Let’s Learn Egyptian Colloquial Arabic Metaphor and Morphology Arabic Verbs

Dina El Dik Lisa J. White Emad Iskandar Illustrated by Mahmoud Shaltout

Yalla! Let’s Learn Egyptian Colloquial Arabic Consciously and unconsciously, speakers of Verbs is a practical tool to help both students Arabic use reams of vocabulary derived from and teachers of Arabic in the classroom. It the body, making it an ideal springboard for presents the three hundred most frequently a deeper and more nuanced understanding used verbs in ECA, each one categorized of Arabic morphology. Rooted in the Body according to ECA verb patterns, which are uses delightful side-by-side essays and comic based on those used in Modern Standard illustrations to invite readers to explore Arabic’s Arabic. The verbs are fully conjugated in the signature morphology as they reflect on some present/imperfect and past/perfect tenses in 120 metaphorically charged body parts. As it the affirmative and the negative, each entry demystifies the links between morphology and also listing imperatives and active participles. semantics, it also uses citations from Arabic’s This resource focuses on pronunciation, rich cultural history to highlight the body’s vital rather than reading or writing, in order to role in language. This book will be an invalu- help students gain fluency in spoken Egyptian able resource for advanced learners of Arabic, Arabic. To this end, each verb in the book is linguists, rhetoricians, and philosophers of spelled phonetically. language.

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Keda Mazbuut Thirteen Ways to Make a Plural A Grammar Book of Egyptian Arabic Preparing to Learn Arabic with Exercises

Mona Kamel Hassan Jacob Halpin

This beginner’s level guide to Egyptian Thirteen Ways to Make a Plural: Preparing to Colloquial Arabic (ECA) grammar is the ideal Learn Arabic provides essential guidance on supplement for students of ECA as a foreign making a success of learning Arabic, drawing language. Keda Mazbuut is divided into on the author’s personal experience of having twenty-five lessons, each devoted to a key been there and done it, along with the insights grammatical rule, with examples to illustrate and advice of countless other students and usage followed by a variety of exercises. Mona teachers. It enables readers to identify the type Hassan has organized the lesson topics to prog- of Arabic (modern standard or colloquial) ress in difficulty, from basic nominal sentences suited to their needs, to set realistic learning to more complex grammatical structures such goals, and to achieve them more efficiently. It as the imperative and conditional sentences. All includes tried-and-tested methods for improving rules are explained in straightforward English, vocabulary retention, speaking fluency, listening while words and phrases are provided in both accuracy, and reading skills, while separating Arabic script and transcribed Arabic, accom- the grammar that’s needed in the real world panied by audio files to facilitate students’ ECA from that which can be left for later. It also pro- pronunciation. vides helpful advice on how to make the most of an ‘immersion’ experience abroad, what it takes to reach an advanced level, and the Arabic required in different professional areas.

Making Film in Egypt The National Imaginarium How Labor, Technology, and Mediation A History of Egyptian Filmmaking Shape the Industry

Chihab El Khachab Magdy Mounir El-Shammaa

The enormous influence of the Egyptian film Spanning a century of Egyptian filmmaking, industry on popular culture across the Arab this work weaves together culture, history, poli- world is widely acknowledged, but little is tics, and economics to form a narrative of how known about its concrete workings behind Egyptian national identity came to be con- the scenes. Making Film in Egypt provides a structed and reconstructed over time on film. fascinating glimpse into the lived reality of com- It goes beyond the films themselves to explore mercial film production in today’s Cairo, with the processes of filmmaking—the artists that an emphasis on labor hierarchies, production made it possible, the institutional networks, practices, and the recent transition to digital structures, and rules that bound them together, technologies. Drawing on in-depth interviews the changing social and political environment and participant observation among production in which the films were produced, and the workers, on-set technicians, and artistic crew role of the state. In peeling back the curtain members, Chihab El Khachab sets out to answer to reveal the complexities behind the screen, a simple question: how do filmmakers deal Magdy El-Shammaa shows cinema as at once with the unpredictable future of their films? The both a reflection and a producer of larger answer unfolds through a journey across the cultural imaginings of the nation. industry’s political economy, its labor processes, its technological infrastructure, its logistical and artistic work, and its imagined audiences.

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Documentary Filmmaking in the Middle Classic Egyptian Movies East and North Africa 101 Must-See Films

Edited by Viola Shafik Sameh Fathy

While many of the Arab documentary films that Concentrating on movie productions writ- emerged after the digital turn in the 1990s have ten and produced entirely in Egypt, film been the subject of close scholarly and media critic Sameh Fathy here selects the 101 most attention, far less well studied is the immense important movies to have come out of Cairo’s wealth of Arab documentaries produced during famous studios over the last eighty years. From the celluloid era. These ranged from newsreels classic comedies like Salama Is Fine to social to information, propaganda, and educational dramas like The Second Wife, and from literary films, travelogues, as well as more radical, adaptations like The Call of the Curlew to mas- artistic formats, such as direct cinema and film terpieces of the cinematic art like The Night essays. This book sets out to examine the long of Counting the Years, the author introduces history of Arab nonfiction filmmaking in the us to each film’s writers, producers, directors, Middle East and North Africa across a range of and stars, and explains the movie’s particular national trajectories and documentary styles, historical, cultural, or artistic significance. from the early twentieth century to the present. Illustrated throughout with posters and stills from all the movies covered.

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Cairo Since 1900 Open Gaza An Architectural Guide Architectures of Hope

Mohamed Elshahed Edited by Michael Sorkin and Deen Sharp

This pocket-sized volume is the first compre- The Gaza Strip is one of the most beleaguered hensive architectural guide to the constructions environments on earth. Crammed into a space and modernist building styles that have shaped of 360 square kilometers, 1.8 million people and continue to shape the Egyptian capital live under an Israeli siege, enforcing conditions since the early twentieth century. Arranged by that continue to plummet to ever more unimag- geographical area, it includes entries for more inable depths of degradation and despair. Gaza, than 220 buildings and sites of note, each however, is more than an endless encyclopedia entry consisting of concise, explanatory text of depressing statistics. It is also a place of describing the building and its significance, fortitude, resistance, and imagination. This book accompanied by photographs, drawings, and brings together architects, environmentalists, maps. urban planners, activists, and scholars from around the world to consider and imagine how life can be improved inside the limitations [A] call to arms, a rallying cry to take another imposed by the Israeli blockade, and outside look at the everyday fabric of this richly the idiocy of violence and warfare. “ layered city.”—The Guardian

Open Gaza provocatively shows how Gaza Beautifully designed, as elegant and functional continues to be a source of life in its ingenuity, as many of the buildings it documents.” “ love, and possibilities.”—Noura Erakat, “ —Al-Fanar Media Rutgers University

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Abdelhalim Ibrahim Abdelhalim The Architecture of Ramses Wissa Wassef An Architecture of Collective Memory

Conchita Añorve-Tschirgi James Steele and Ehsan Abushadi

The first comprehensive study of the work and The pioneering Egyptian architect and teacher career of Abdelhalim Ibrahim Abdelhalim, one Ramses Wissa Wassef (1911–74) is best known of Egypt’s foremost contemporary architects, for his founding in 1951 of the Ramses Wissa this book is inspired by Abdelhalim’s deep Wassef Art Center in Harraniya, a small village belief in the power of rituals as a guiding force in Greater Cairo. Less well known are Wissa behind various human behaviors and the Wassef’s prolific architectural output and his spaces in which they are enacted and designed efforts and influence beyond the confines of to play out. Each chapter is consequently the Harraniya center to promote artistic expres- dedicated to one of these rituals and the sion among Egyptian youth. This generously ways in which some of Abdelhalim’s primary illustrated volume is the first comprehensive commissions have revealed and expressed that survey of Wissa Wassef’s architectural works, ritual. In the sequence presented these are: both extant and non-extant, shedding light the rituals of possession, reverence, order, the on his legacy and significant engagement transmission of knowledge, procession, human with vernacular and contemporary Egyptian institutions, geometry, light, the sense of place, architecture. materiality, and color.

[A]n impressively informative, exceptionally detailed, and expertly presented combination “ of biography and architectural study” —Midwest Book Review

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Hassan Fathy Orientalist Lives An Architectural Life Western Artists in the Middle East, 1830–1920

Edited by Leïla el-Wakil James Parry

This fully illustrated volume represents the In one of the most remarkable artistic pilgrim- most comprehensive examination yet of the ages in history, the 19th century saw scores life and work of the great Egyptian architect of Western artists heading to the Middle East. Hassan Fathy (1900–89), and the regional and Inspired by the allure of the exotic Orient, they international significance of his contribution went in search of subjects for their paintings. to the lived environment. Eleven Egyptian James Parry traces these journeys of cultural and international scholars reveal the man, his and artistic discovery. From the early pioneer milieu, his goals and his passions, his concept David Roberts through the heyday of leading of social living and his fight for a humane stars such as Jean-Léon Gérôme and Frederick model for affordable housing in tune with Arthur Bridgman, to Orientalism’s post- the environment, the application of these 1900 decline, he describes how these artists concepts in his numerous plans and buildings, prepared for their expeditions, coped with his relations with the establishment, the extent working in unfamiliar surroundings, engaged of his influence, and the lasting legacy of his with local people, and then took home to their completed projects. Generously illustrated studios the memories, sketches, and collec- with archival and color photographs and the tions of artifacts necessary to create the works architect’s own distinctive and beautifully for which their audiences clamored. decorated gouache plans and elevations, many never previously published.

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A History of Arab Graphic Design The Tentmakers of Cairo Egypt’s Medieval and Modern Appliqué Craft

Bahia Shehab and Haytham Nawar Seif El Rashidi and Sam Bowker

Arab graphic design emerged in the early In the crowded center of Historic Cairo lies a twentieth century out of a need to influence, covered market lined with wonderful textiles and give expression to, the far-reaching sewn by hand in brilliant colors and intricate economic, social, and political changes that patterns. This is the Street of the Tentmakers, were taking place in the Arab world at the the home of the Egyptian appliqué art known time. Examining the work of over eighty key as khayamiya. This book brings together the designers from Morocco to Iraq, and covering stories of the tentmakers and their extraordi- the period from pre-1900 to the end of the nary tents—from the huge tent pavilions, or twentieth century, A History of Arab Graphic suradeq, of the streets of Egypt, to the souve- Design traces the people and events that were nirs of the First World War and textile artworks integral to the shaping of a field of graphic celebrated by quilters around the world. It design in the Arab world. traces the origins and aesthetics of the khayamiya textiles that enlivened the ceremonial tents of the Fatimid, Mamluk, and Ottoman dynasties.

“This book is an homage to this craft and details all its aspects. . . . The authors have “ done a great service by telling this story which is an intricate part of the history of Cairo. They tell it well and tell it in detail.”—Bob Brier, Ancient Egypt Magazine

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Nubian Gold Ancient Egyptian Jewelry Ancient Jewelry from Sudan and Egypt 50 Masterpieces of Art and Design

Peter Lacovara and Yvonne J. Markowitz Nigel Fletcher-Jones

The fabled land of Nubia, whose very name Ancient Egyptian Jewelry: 50 Masterpieces means ‘gold,’ was famous in ancient times for of Art and Design draws on the exquisite its supplies of precious metal, exotic mate- collections in the archaeological museums rial, and intricate craftsmanship. Many of the of Cairo to tell the story of three thousand adornments made in Nubia are masterpieces years of jewelry-making, from simple amulets of the jeweler’s art—marvels of design and to complex ritual jewelry to the spells that construction rivaling, and often surpassing, protected the king in life and assisted his jour- adornments made in Egypt and the rest of ney to the Otherworld in death. Gold, silver, the ancient Mediterranean world. Although carnelian, turquoise, and lapis lazuli were just these unique treasures are among the most some of the precious materials used in many stunning to have survived from antiquity, they of the pieces, and this stunningly illustrated remain little known. Richly illustrated with book beautifully showcases the colors and beautiful photographs of these exquisite items, exceptional artistry and accomplishment that many of them never before published, Nubian make ancient Egyptian jewelry so dazzling to Gold tells the story, not only of the treasures this day. themselves, but of the exciting tales of their discovery and the rich background of the The photography is crisp, clear, modern and exotic and remote civilizations that produced very attractive . . . provides, seemingly in them. “ passing, an enormous amount of information about religion, economy, trade, history and craftsmanship.” — Sigrid van Rode, Bedouin Silver

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Jihad of the Pen Coptic Christians and Muslims in Egypt The Sufi Literature of West Africa Two Communities, One Nation

Rudolph Ware, Zakary Wright, and Amir Syed Fikry Andrawes and Alison Orr-Andrawes

Outsiders have long observed the contours of For the most part of their shared history, the flourishing scholarly traditions of African Coptic Christians and Muslims in Egypt Muslim societies, but the voices of the most have experienced bouts of sectarian tension renowned voices of West African Sufism have alternating with peaceful coexistence. This rarely been heard outside of their respective engaging and highly readable book tells the constituencies. This volume brings together story of Muslim–Christian relations in Egypt writings by Uthman b. Fudi (d. 1817, Nigeria), through key points in Egyptian history, from Umar Tal (d. 1864, Mali), Ahmad Bamba (d. the coming of Islam in the 7th century to the 1927, Senegal), and Ibrahim Niasse (d. 1975, aftermath of the January 2011 revolution. The Senegal), who, between them, founded the authors argue that, even if they were occa- largest Muslim communities in African history. sionally attacked and persecuted, the Copts Jihad of the Pen offers translations of Arabic generally shared the fortunes of their Muslim source material that proved formative to the neighbors, and that religious difference in constitution of a veritable Islamic revival Egypt was frequently exploited by rulers, both sweeping West Africa in the 19th and 20th internal and external, for political gain. centuries. The authors have selected endur- ingly relevant primary sources and richly contextualized them within broader currents of Islamic scholarship on the African continent.

The Early Coptic Papacy Christianity and Monasticism in The Egyptian Church and Its Leadership Alexandria and the Egyptian Deserts in Late Antiquity: The Popes of Egypt, Volume 1 Edited by Gawdat Gabra and Hany N. Takla Stephen J. Davis

The Copts, adherents of the Egyptian Orthodox The contributors to this volume, international Church, today represent the largest Christian specialists in Coptology from around the world, community in the Middle East, and their examine the various aspects of Coptic civiliza- presiding bishops have been accorded the title tion in Alexandria and its environs and in the of pope since the third century AD. This study Egyptian deserts over the past two millennia. analyzes the development of the Egyptian The contributions explore Coptic art, archaeol- papacy from its origins to the rise of Islam. How ogy, architecture, language, and literature. The did the papal office in Egypt evolve as a social impact of Alexandrian theology and its cultural and religious institution during the first six and a heritage as well as the archaeology of its ‘uni- half centuries AD? How do the developments in versity’ are highlighted. Christian epigraphy in the Alexandrian patriarchate reflect larger devel- the Kharga Oasis, the art and architecture of the opments in the Egyptian church as a whole? Bagawat cemetery, and the archaeological site of Kellis (Ismant al-Kharab) with its Manichaean texts are also discussed.

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Egypt’s Housing Crisis Egypt’s Desert Dreams The Shaping of Urban Space Development or Disaster? (New Edition)

Yahia Shawkat. Foreword by David Sims David Sims. Foreword by Timothy Mitchell From the 1940s onward, officials deployed a number of policies to create adequate housing Egypt’s Desert Dreams is the first attempt of its for Egypt’s growing population. By the 1970s, kind to look at Egypt’s desert development in housing production had outstripped popu- its entirety. It recounts the failures of gov- lation growth, but today half of Egypt’s one ernmental schemes, analyzes why they have hundred million people cannot afford a decent failed, and exposes the main winners of Egypt’s home. Egypt’s Housing Crisis takes presidential desert projects, as well as the underlying nar- speeches, parliamentary reports, legislation, ratives and political necessities behind it, even and official statistics as the basis with which to in the post-revolutionary era. It also shows that investigate the tools that officials have used to all is not lost, and that there are alternative ‘solve’ the housing crisis—rent control, social paths that Egypt could take. This fully updated housing, and amnesties for informal self-build- paperback edition addresses the latest projects ing—as well as the inescapable reality of these as well as the discourses relating to Egypt’s policies’ outcomes. desert development since the publication of the hardcover edition nearly four years ago, particularly the scheme to built a gigantic new capital east of Cairo.

Finally, a tour de force that explains, David Sims’ remarkable book stands as a historicizes, and critiques Egypt’s poorly superb model for scholarship that will be “targeted, ineffective, and unfair housing “illuminating and richly useful for policymakers policies.”—Diane Singerman, American and development experts, as well as social and University environmental activists.”—Paul Amar, Journal of North African Studies Read an excerpt | Click to order Read an excerpt | Click to order Hardbound | 288pp. | 50 b&w illus. Paperback | 486pp. | 85 illus., 15 maps 9789774169571 9789774168574 Sep 2020 | $49.95 | £40 | LE600 Sep 2018 | $29.95 | £24.95 | LE500 26 POLITICAL ECONOMY POLITICAL ECONOMY

The Political Economy of Reforms in Egypt New Perspectives on Middle East Politics Issues and Policymaking since 1952 Economy, Society, and International Relations Edited by Robert Mason Khalid Ikram This compelling volume examines import- Drawing on Khalid Ikram’s extensive knowl- ant and cross-cutting themes in the study of edge of economic policymaking at the highest contemporary Middle East and North African levels, The Political Economy of Reforms politics and international relations. Drawing in Egypt lays out the enduring features of together contributions from scholars based the Egyptian economy and its performance within the region and beyond, it weaves since 1952 before presenting an account of together essential interdisciplinary, conceptually policy-making, growth and structural change rich, and forward-looking content. Chapters under the country’s successive presidents to cover population and youth, civil–military the present day. relations, soft power and geopolitical competi- tion, regionalization and internationalization of conflict, the role of oil in reconstruction efforts, extra-regional actors, environmental politics, This outstanding book puts Egypt’s economic and specifically, the Israel–Palestine conflict. history in the context of those of other devel- Students are supported with an extended and “ oping countries, comparing it to such histories innovative glossary, including key concepts, in East Asia and Latin America. Ikram skillfully actors and abbreviations. New Perspectives on weaves economic theory into his account of Middle East Politics serves as an ideal primer Egyptian economic policies over the last half and companion volume for scholars of Middle century and assesses the role and effectiveness East Studies, as well as for policy professionals, of foreign aid.” journalists and the general reader engaging and —John Waterbury, Foreign Affairs re-engaging with the region.

Missions Impossible Revisiting Levels of Contemporary Arabic Higher Education and Policymaking in the in Egypt Arab World Essays on Arabic Varieties in Memory of John Waterbury El-Said Badawi Edited by Zeinab A. Taha Missions Impossible seeks to explain the process of policymaking in higher education in the Arab El-Said Badawi’s seminal Mustawayāt world, a process that is shaped by the region’s al-ʕarabiyya al-muʕāṣira fī Miṣr (Levels of Con- politics of autocratic rule. Higher education temporary Arabic in Egypt) was first published in the Arab world is directly linked to crises in in Arabic in 1973. Its theory of interrelated economic growth, social inequality and, as a language levels that are ever-changing along result, regime survival. If unsuccessful, higher a sociolinguistic continuum transformed the education could be the catalyst to regime way scholars carried out research on language collapse. If successful, it could be the catalyst to variation, lexicography, and teaching Arabic sustained growth and innovation—but that, too, as a foreign language. Since that time, Arabic could unleash forces that the region’s autocrats has witnessed major changes in the way its are unable to control. Leaders are risk-averse spoken and written forms are practiced, but and therefore implement policies that tame the informed, scholarly publications on the current universities politically but in the process sap reality of the linguistic landscape have been their capabilities for innovation and knowledge few and far between. This collective study, with creation. contributions from renowned scholars of Arabic linguistics, draws on empirical data to bring [T]he higher education sector is a fascinating together original new research on spoken and prism through which to observe both written language varieties in Egypt today. “ stagnation and change in the region, and there is no better guide than this book, which is vintage Waterbury: comprehensive, thought provoking, and often droll.”—Lisa Anderson, Foreign Affairs Read an excerpt | Click to order Read an excerpt | Click to order Hardbound | 336pp. | 5 illus. Hardbound | 432pp. | 13 b&w illus. 9789774169663 9789774167706 | Sep 2020 | $70 | £60 | LE700 Mar 2020 | $69.95 | £60 | LE800 28 GENERAL INTEREST

Islamic Monuments in Cairo A Field Guide to the Street Names The Practical Guide: Updated 7th Edition of Central Cairo

Caroline Williams Humphrey Davies and Lesley Lababidi

Cairo’s Islamic monuments are part of an unin- Who were ‘Abd el-Khaleq Sarwat Basha or terrupted tradition that spans over a thousand Yusef el-Gindi that they should have streets years of building activity. No other Islamic city named after them? Who was Nubar Basha and can equal Cairo’s spectacular heritage, nor why did his street move from the north of the trace its historical and architectural develop- city to its center in 1933? Why do older maps ment with such clarity. This new, fully revised show two squares called Bab el-Luq, while edition of a popular and handy guide contin- modern maps show none? A Field Guide to the ues to walk the visitor around two hundred of Street Names of Central Cairo lists more than the city’s most interesting Islamic monuments. 450 current and three hundred former appella- It also keeps pace with recent restoration ini- tions. Current street names are listed in alpha- tiatives and newly opened monuments. betical order, with an explanation of what each commemorates and when it was first recorded, followed by the same for its predecessors. This book ought to be in the luggage of every “ visitor to Cairo. Furthermore, once home, lovers and students of Cairo’s architecture will This guidebook is anything but ordinary . . . find it a convenient and accurate quick refer- rekindles memories and brings to life the for- ence as well as a cherished souvenir of many “ gotten streets, lanes, alleys, and passageways profitable and enjoyable rambles among the of Central Cairo.” monuments of Cairo.” —Lisa Kaaki, Arab News —Jonathan M. Bloom, Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt

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All Strangers Are Kin Bilhana Adventures in Arabic and the Arab World Wholefood Recipes from Egypt, Lebanon, and Morocco

Zora O’Neill Yasmine Elgharably and Shewekar Elgharably

Join O’Neill for a grand tour through the Middle Eastern cuisine is renowned the world Middle East as she sets out to master Arabic. over for its sophistication, variety, and flavor. You will laugh with her in Egypt, delight in Bilhana (Egyptian for ‘bon appétit’) brings a the stories she passes on from the United Arab contemporary twist to traditional Middle Eastern Emirates, and find yourself transformed by her dishes with the use of healthy cooking meth- experiences in Lebanon and Morocco. She’s ods and the freshest ingredients the region has packed her dictionaries, her unsinkable sense to offer. Spanning the vast area south of the of humor, and her talent for making fast friends Mediterranean from the East (Lebanon and Egypt) of strangers. From quiet, bougainvillea-lined to the West (Morocco), from simple mezzes or streets to the lively buzz of crowded medinas, breakfast dishes to elaborate stews and roasts, the from families’ homes to local hotspots, she recipes in this book showcase the vibrant colors brings a part of the world that is thousands of and immense variety of Middle Eastern cooking miles away right to your door. as well as being easy to follow.

O’Neill masterfully weaves together vignettes, linguistic musings, and a colorful cast of thou- “ sands into an always-thoughtful, often hysterically funny paean to a part of the world about which most Americans remain woefully ignorant.” —Suketu Mehta, author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found

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Egypt Inside Out Alif 40 Mapping New Directions in the Humanities Trevor Naylor Photographss by Doriana Dimitrova Edited by Ferial Ghazoul and Walid El Hamamsy In Egypt Inside Out, Trevor Naylor and Doriana Dimitrova escape the crowds and clamor to This issue of Alif is dedicated to efforts to take us on a lyrical exploration of place, bring- redefine and reorient the humanities in light ing us the country in all its captivating regional of global institutional and intellectual realities. diversity. Photographing villages, towns, and “Mapping” is construed in several ways: the cities from the interiors of hotels and homes, more literal meaning of geographical “reori- and from on board boats, taxis, and trains, they entation” in the sense of efforts to redefine the transport us to Egypt’s hideaways and dappled relationship between global north and south, shadows, its dazzling colors and sublime light, and between Western and non-Western intel- and the vast splendor of its landscapes and lectual traditions. It also refers to the remapping architecture. Written by an author who has of the modern university by interdisciplinary known Egypt for more than thirty years, and and multidisciplinary work in the humanities illustrated with stunning photographs, this that brings it to new shores such as the digital is a unique journey through the allure of an humanities and medical humanities. Essays map extraordinary country. out ways for the humanities to better engage the extra-academic pressures shaping the modern university as it remains true to its own best Read an excerpt | Click to order long-standing goals and values. Hardbound | 224pp. | 302 color illus. 9789774169045 Dec 2019 | $35 | £29.95 | LE500

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Understanding the Public Sector in On Friendship between the No Egyptian Cinema: A State Venture Longer and the Not Yet: An Ethnographic Account

Cairo Papers in Social Science Vol. 35, Cairo Papers in Social Science Vol. 35, No. 3 No. 4 Tamara Chahine Maatouk Soha Mohsen

In 1957 the public sector in Egyptian cin- By following, tracing, and accompanying ema was established, followed shortly by the friends and networks of friendship in and emergence of public-sector film production in across Egypt’s two biggest cities, Cairo and 1960, only to end eleven years later, in 1971. Alexandria, this ethnographic account aims to Assailed with negativity since its demise, if not highlight some of the contemporary mean- earlier, this state adventure in film production ings, forms, and purposes of friendship among was dismissed as a complete failure, financially, young Egyptians with the aim of renewing administratively and, most importantly, artisti- and reviving the question, “What can friend- cally. After discussion of the role played by the ships do?” Against a backdrop of conditions public sector in trying to alleviate the financial of precarity and the ruins of finance capital- crisis that threatened the film industry, this study ism, this study examines the manifestations of investigates whether there was a real change in how the relationship of friendship manages the general perception of the cinema, and the to re-invent and re-define itself. Moreover, government’s attitude toward it, following the it asks whether new modes of relational- June 1967 Arab–Israeli war. ity, companionship, and intimacy can be cultivated and practiced given the current neoliberal conditions of living.

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