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Challenging Colonialism
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ISBN: 9781400853748 1400853745 0691641366 0691613591 0691076405 1322009929 Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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Eric Davis challenges classic theories of dependency and imperialism and explains the history of the Bank Misr by interrelating world market forces, Egyptian class structure, and the Egyptian nationalist movement and state apparatus.Originally published in 1983.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The struggle for constitutional power : law, politics, and economic development in Egypt
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ISBN: 9780521124416 0521876044 9780521876049 9780511511202 0521124417 1107182344 9786610917297 051128988X 0511301863 0511290489 0511511205 1280917296 0511288603 0511289286 9780511290480 9780511289880 9780511289286 9781107182349 9781280917295 6610917299 9780511301865 9780511288609 Year: 2007 Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press,

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For nearly three decades, scholars and policymakers have placed considerable stock in judicial reform as a panacea for the political and economic turmoil plaguing developing countries. Courts are charged with spurring economic development, safeguarding human rights, and even facilitating transitions to democracy. How realistic are these expectations, and in what political contexts can judicial reforms deliver their expected benefits? This book addresses these issues through an examination of the politics of the Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court, the most important experiment in constitutionalism in the Arab world. The Egyptian regime established a surprisingly independent constitutional court to address a series of economic and administrative pathologies that lie at the heart of authoritarian political systems. Although the Court helped the regime to institutionalize state functions and attract investment, it simultaneously opened new avenues through which rights advocates and opposition parties could challenge the regime. The book challenges conventional wisdom and provides insights into perennial questions concerning the barriers to institutional development, economic growth, and democracy in the developing world.

Alexandria, real and imagined
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ISBN: 0754638901 Year: 2004 Volume: 5 Publisher: Aldershot : Ashgate,


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The memoirs and diaries of Muhammad Farid, an Egyptian nationalist leader, 1868-1919
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ISBN: 0773494545 Year: 1992 Publisher: San Francisco : Mellen Research University Press,

Alexandria in late antiquity
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ISBN: 080187033X 9780801870330 080185377X 9780801885419 0801885418 9780801853777 Year: 1997 Publisher: Baltimore, Md. Johns Hopkins University Press


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Durrell and the city
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ISBN: 1283362406 9786613362407 161147454X 9781611474541 9781611474534 9781283362405 6613362409 1611474531 Year: 2012 Publisher: Madison, N.J. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

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Durrell and the City commemorates the 50th anniversary of the publication of the Quartet with a collection of fourteen new essays by a group of international scholars and critics. The collection provides a critical understanding of all Durrell's urban landscapes, but focuses on the place that made him famous-the city of Alexandria-in order to provide a reassessment of his career and achievement.


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Islamic law and human rights
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ISBN: 1443898449 9781443898447 1443894796 9781443894791 Year: 2016 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

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This book explores the development of the Muslim Brotherhood's thinking on Islamic law and human rights, and argues that the Muslim Brotherhood has exacerbated, rather than solved, tensions between the two in Egypt. The organisation and its scholars have drawn on hard-line juristic opinions and reinvented certain concepts from Islamic traditions in ways that limit the scope of various human rights, and advocate for Islamic alternatives to international human rights. The Muslim Brotherhood's practices in opposition and in power have been consistent with its literature. As an opposition party, it embraced human rights language in its struggle against an authoritarian regime, but advocated for broad restrictions on certain rights. However, its recent and short-lived experience in power provides evidence of its inclination to reinforce restrictions on religious freedom, freedom of expression and association, and the rights of religious minorities, and to reverse previous reforms related to women's rights.The book concludes that the peaceful management of political and religious diversity in society cannot be realised under the Muslim Brotherhood's model of a Shari'a state. The study advocates for the drastic reformation of traditional Islamic law and state impartiality towards religion, as an alternative to the development of a Shari'a state or exclusionary secularism. This transformation is, however, contingent upon significant long-term political and socio-cultural change, and it is clear that successfully expanding human rights protection in Egypt requires not the exclusion of Islamists, but their transformation. Islamists still have a large constituency and they are not the only actors who are ambivalent about human rights. Meanwhile, Islamic law also appears to continue to influence Egypt's law. The book explores the prospects for certain constitutional and institutional measures to facilitate an evolutionary interpretation of Islamic law, provide a baseline of human rights and gradually integrate international human rights into Egyptian law.

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Human rights --- Jamʻīyat al-Ikhwān al-Muslimīn (Egypt) --- Moslem Brotherhood (Egypt) --- Muslim Brotherhood (Egypt) --- Society of the Muslim Brothers (Egypt) --- Müslüman Kardeşler Teşkilâtı (Egypt) --- İhvan-ı Müslimin (Egypt) --- Aḥim ha-Muslemim (Egypt) --- Ikhwān al-Muslimūn (Egypt) --- Frères musulmans (Egypt) --- Moslem Brothers (Egypt) --- Mifleget ha-El (Egypt) --- Party of God (Egypt) --- Ḥavurah ha-Islamit (Egypt) --- Islamic Community (Egypt) --- Ikhwān al-Muslimīn (Egypt) --- Bracia Muzułmanie (Egypt) --- Muslim Brothers (Egypt) --- Muslimbruderschaft (Egypt) --- جامعة الاخوان المسلمين (Egypt) --- جماعة الإخوان المسلمين (Egypt) --- جمعيات الإخوان المسلمين (مصر) --- جمعية الإخوان المسلمين --- جمعية الإخوان المسلين (Egypt ) --- جمعية الاخوان المسلمين (Egypt) --- جمعية الاخوان المسلمين، مصر --- جمعية الاخوان المسلين --- جمعية الاخوان المسلين (طگيپت) --- جمعية الاخوان المسلين (مصر) --- جمعية الٳخوان المسلمين (مصر) --- Fratelli musulmani (Egypt) --- Ikhwanul Muslimin (Egypt) --- Hermanos Musulmanes (Egypt) --- Sociedad de los Hermanos Musulmanes (Egypt) --- Ik̲h̲vānulmuslimūn (Egypt) --- اخوان المسلمون (Egypt) --- Ik̲h̲vān al-Muslimīn (Egypt) --- اخوان المسلمين (Egypt)


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Alexandria : past futures
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ISBN: 9780300270181 946230338X 9789462303386 0300270186 946230338X 9789462303386 Year: 2022 Publisher: Arles Brussels Actes Sud Mercatorfonds

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Alexandria: Past Futures', an exhibition of some 200 artifacts from major European museum collections, highlights one of the greatest cities of the ancient Mediterranean at the peak of its cultural influence. The exhibition provides a fresh perspective on Alexandria, one of the great centres of ancient civilisation, and sheds light on its urban, political and religious organisations, the everyday life of its citizens, and its influence on science and philosophy, which spanned from the third century B.C. to the fourth century of our era. Some twenty contemporary works of art enhance the theme of the exhibition and, thanks to a carefully designed scenography, provide an analytical and poetic backdrop to its various parts. In addition, incursions into other periods ? Byzantine, Arabic, Modern ? will enrich the focus of the exhibition and provide a more comprehensive understanding of Alexandria throughout history.0 0Exhibition: BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium (30.09.2022 - 08.01.2023).

City and school in late antique Athens and Alexandria
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ISBN: 9780520244214 0520244214 Year: 2006 Volume: 41 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,


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Alexandria : a cultural and religious melting pot
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ISBN: 9788779344914 8779344917 Year: 2009 Volume: 9 Publisher: Aarhus : Aarhus University Press,

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