Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "Egypt"
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The International History of the Yemen Civil War, 1962-1968
(2014-06-06)The deposition of Imam Muhammad al-Badr in September 1962 was the culmination of a Yemeni nationalist movement that began in the 1940s with numerous failed attempts to overthrow the traditional religious legal order. Prior ... -
Islamic Law and Legal Education in Modern Egypt
(2013-03-08)This dissertation examines the transmission of Islamic legal knowledge in modern Egypt. It is based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in Cairo among formally trained Islamic scholars. With governmental permission, I ... -
Knowing the Nile: Landscape, Empire, and Engineering the Past in Ottoman Egypt, 1713-1863
(2023-06-01)Most historical studies of the Lower Nile in the nineteenth century focus largely on the ways in which expert engineers dominated the river through large-scale public works like barrages and dams. This dissertation asks ... -
Leaking Empires: The Struggle over Information in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1870-1952
(2022-05-13)This is a history of information and its control as a political battleground. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, the explosion of mass media and communications connected people across much of the world and made it ... -
Scientific Wealth in Middle East and North Africa: Productivity, Indigeneity, and Specialty in 1981–2013
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Several developing countries seek to build knowledge-based economies by attempting to expand scientific research capabilities. Characterizing the state and direction of progress in this arena is challenging but important. ...