Part of The World in A Life series, this brief, inexpensive text provides insight into the life of Anwar al-Sadat, one of the most transformative figures in Middle Eastern and world history. Little wa ... Read more
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In 2011, Egypt witnessed more protests than any other country in the world. Counter to the received narrative, Amy Austin Holmes argues that the ousting of Mubarak in 2011 did not represent the culmin ... Read more
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Fontes Historiae Africanae, New Series: Sources of African History
The Nuer people of South Sudan hold a special if unwanted place in imperial history as the object of Britain's last 'pacification' campaign in Africa. Territorial conquest was completed with the annex ... Read more
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Winner of Finalist, Melville J. Herskovits Prize of the African Studies Association
Honorable Mention, L. Carl Brown AIMS Book Prize of the American Institute for Maghrib Studies
Winner of the Jerry B ... Read more
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he single best resource for a quick and accurate introduction to Egypt
Draws on the latest scholarly research on Egyptian history, politics, economics, and religion to provide a well-informed and ... Read more
With almost every news broadcast, we are reminded of the continuing instability of the Middle East, where state collapse, civil wars, and terrorism have combined to produce a region in turmoil. If the ... Read more
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Revolutionary Justice narrates the power struggle between the Free Officers and their adversaries in the aftermath of Egypt's July Revolution of 1952 by studying trials held at the Revolution's Court ... Read more
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Shaping a Muslim State provides a synthetic study of the political, social, and economic processes which formed early Islamic Egypt. Looking at a corpus of previously unknown Arabic papyrus letters, d ... Read more
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A complete and concise guide to the complex history of the region, including the creation of the independent South Sudan in 2011
Natsios was US envoy to Sudan from 2006 to 2009, and the USAID rep ... Read more
In colonial-era Egypt, a new social category of modern men emerged, the efendiyya, who represented the new middle class elite. This volume explores how they assumed a key political role in the anti-co ... Read more
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