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Cairo University and the making of modern Egypt
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ISBN: 0521366410 0521894336 051159965X Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Cairo University has been crucially important in shaping the national life of modern Egypt. It has educated much of the political, professional and cultural elite: doctors and lawyers, novelists and philosophers, bankers and prime ministers have all studied there. Founded in 1908 and for many years competing only with the religious mosque-university of al-Azhar, the European-inspired Cairo University quickly became the prime indigenous model for other state universities in the Arab world. Professor Reid has drawn on university archives hitherto untapped by Western scholars and a wide range of other Arabic and Western sources. He explains the university's part in the national quest for independence from Britain, in the perennial tension between secular and religious world views, and in the push for a more egalitarian society. Nasser and Sadat, Kings Fuad and Faruq, reformers Muhammad Abduh and Taha Husayn, nationalist hero Saad Zaghlul and Nobel Prize winner Najib Mahfuz all feature prominently in this fascinating history of modern Egypt's leading educational institution.

Whose pharaohs? : archaeology, museums, and Egyptian national identity from Napoleon to World War I
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ISBN: 0520240693 Year: 2002 Publisher: Berkeley (Calif.) : University of California press,

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Egypt's rich and celebrated ancient past has served many causes throughout history--in both Egypt and the West. Concentrating on the era from Napoleon's conquest and the discovery of the Rosetta Stone to the outbreak of World War I, this book examines the evolution of Egyptian archaeology in the context of Western imperialism and nascent Egyptian nationalism. Traditionally, histories of Egyptian archaeology have celebrated Western discoverers such as Champollion, Mariette, Maspero, and Petrie, while slighting Rifaa al-Tahtawi, Ahmad Kamal, and other Egyptians. This exceptionally well-illustrated and well-researched book writes Egyptians into the history of archaeology and museums in their own country and shows how changing perceptions of the past helped shape ideas of modern national identity. Drawing from rich archival sources in Egypt, the United Kingdom, and France, and from little-known Arabic publications, Reid discusses previously neglected topics in both scholarly Egyptology and the popular "Egyptomania" displayed in world's fairs and Orientalist painting and photography. He also examines the link between archaeology and the rise of the modern tourist industry. This richly detailed narrative discusses not only Western and Egyptian perceptions of pharaonic history and archaeology but also perceptions of Egypt's Greco-Roman, Coptic, and Islamic eras. Throughout this book, Reid demonstrates how the emergence of archaeology affected the interests and self-perceptions of modern Egyptians. In addition to uncovering a wealth of significant new material on the history of archaeology and museums in Egypt, Reid provides a fascinating window on questions of cultural heritage--how it is perceived, constructed, claimed, and contested.


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Lawyers and politics in the Arab world, 1880-1960
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ISBN: 0882970283 Year: 1981 Publisher: Minneapolis, Minn. Bibliotheca Islamica

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Cairo University and the making of modern Egypt
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ISBN: 9774242653 Year: 1990 Publisher: Cambridge New York Sydney Cambridge University Press

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Whose Pharaohs? : archaeology, museums, and Egyptian national identity from Napoleon to World War I
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ISBN: 0520221974 9780520240698 Year: 2002


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Contesting antiquity in Egypt : archaeologies, Museums, and the struggle for identities from World War to Nasser
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ISBN: 9789774166891 Year: 2015 Publisher: London I.B. Tauris

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