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In: Selected Rand abstracts: a guide to RAND publications, Volume 25, Issue 1
ISSN: 1091-3734
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In: Selected Rand abstracts: a guide to RAND publications, Volume 25, Issue 1
ISSN: 1091-3734
In: Middle East report: MER ; Middle East research and information project, MERIP, Volume 24, p. 30-31
ISSN: 0888-0328, 0899-2851
In: Middle East report: MER ; Middle East research and information project, MERIP, Volume 24, p. 30-31
ISSN: 0888-0328, 0899-2851
In: Comparative studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Volume 44, Issue 2, p. 327-341
ISSN: 1548-226X
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As the Nasserist state built a large hydroelectric dam in the south of Egypt in the early 1960s, Egyptian botanists undertook salvage surveys of the area to be flooded behind the dam, known as historic Nubia. Scientists in these surveys searched for a type of palm tree (Medemia argun) well documented in ancient Egyptian tombs but unrecorded "in living condition" since the late eighteenth century. Gathering written and photographic accounts in memoirs, archives, and botanical tracts, this essay charts the documentary traces of the search for Medemia argun and the affective responses that surface along the margins of texts to show how debate over the potential absence or extinction of a "flagship" endogenous plant coincided with two important shifts in botanical knowledge production: transitions in botany as a discipline that employed new research methodologies and located Egypt "geobotanically" as the temporal and spatial origin for world flora; and transitions in botany as an arena of scientific expertise during postcolonial nationalism's reordering of the Egyptian academy. Building on extinction and destroyed landscape studies, this article explores ecological lexicons of absence and practices of "following" in botany.
In: The journal of North African studies, Volume 28, Issue 5, p. 1289-1292
ISSN: 1743-9345
In: Review of Middle East studies, Volume 56, Issue 1, p. 150-152
ISSN: 2329-3225
In: Journal of women's history, Volume 27, Issue 2, p. 182-193
ISSN: 1527-2036
In: Urban studies, Volume 51, Issue 6, p. 1346-1348
ISSN: 1360-063X
In: International journal of Middle East studies: IJMES, Volume 46, Issue 1, p. 172-174
ISSN: 1471-6380
Studies of public space focus disproportionately on cities. Complex and densely populated urban built environments—with their streets, plazas, institutional buildings, housing projects, markets—make concrete and visible attempts to manage difference. They also structure the ways that less powerful residents challenge and sometimes remake elites' spatial visions of the social order. The robust literature in Middle East studies on Islamic cities, colonial cities, dual cities, quarters and ethnicities, port cities, and so forth is no exception to this urban focus.
In: Journal of world history: official journal of the World History Association, Volume 24, Issue 2, p. 488-491
ISSN: 1527-8050
In: International journal of Middle East studies: IJMES, Volume 44, Issue 4, p. 835-836
ISSN: 1471-6380
In: Journal of women's history, Volume 23, Issue 3, p. 63-88
ISSN: 1527-2036
This article investigates change and continuity in anxieties about shopping during the first half of the twentieth century in Egypt to argue that department stores and their salesclerks became critical sites for enacting and challenging new notions of sexuality and citizenship. Retail innovations, such as commission pay, display, free entry, and large commercial staffs, became understood as sexual and moral problems because department stores blurred the boundaries between classes and were public spaces where unrelated men and women could mix. These concerns about sexuality in the 1920s were recycled and amplified in the late 1940s and early 1950s when salesclerks again came under scrutiny during debates over citizenship and ethnicity. I argue that the particular way this latter debate was barnacled by the concerns of the 1920s helped to delineate the broader society's reaction to the challenges of defining Egyptian nationality.
In: International journal of Middle East studies: IJMES, Volume 43, Issue 1, p. 49-74
ISSN: 1471-6380
AbstractThe specific ways that cloth—"foreign silks," "durable Egyptian cottons," and "artificial silks"—emerged as a potent and visible symbol through which to contest the relations of colonialism and establish national community in Egypt varied with the changing realities of Egypt's political economy. The country's early importation of textiles despite its cultivation of raw cotton, the growth of its state-protected local mechanized industry working long- and medium-staple cotton for a largely lower-class market, and that industry's diversification into artificial silk technologies all helped structure a shift from "foreign silks" to "the nylon woman" as tropes in popular and political discourse defining the limits of the national community and the behaviors suitable for it. Although artificial fibers considerably lowered the cost of hosiery and other goods, thereby expanding consumption, the use of synthetics like nylon rather than cotton subverted the goal of national economic unity between agriculture and industry.
In: Compensation review, Volume 9, Issue 1, p. 65-80
In: Compensation review, Volume 8, Issue 4, p. 64-77