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State, Peasants, and Land in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Egypt: A Virtual Book Talk
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Wed, Jul 5, 2023
7 PM – 8 PM (GMT+3)
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This book examines the rural history of Egypt during the middle years of the nineteenth century, a period that is often glossed over or forgotten. Drawing on a wide array of archival sources, some only rarely utilized by other scholars, it argues that state policy targeting the peasant land tenure regime was informed by the dual economic principles of the Ottoman, or traditional, philosophy of statecraft and that the workings of the relevant regulations did not produce extensive peasant land loss and impoverishment.
To read an excerpt, click here.
You can purchase a copy of the book from worldwide major bookstores and online book retailers or from the following links:
Egypt: AUC Bookstores
US: IndiePubs
UK: Bookshop.org
Speakers
Maha Ghalwash
Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science
The British University in Egypt
Maha Ghalwash holds a PhD in Near Eastern Studies (Princeton University), and currently teaches at the British University in Egypt, where she is a founding member of the Department of Political Science. Her research on nineteenth century Egypt focuses on peasant society, socio-economic developments, the impact of law on society, peasant petitioning activity, peasant land tenure regime, women’s rights to land, and state-peasant relations. She is also interested in Islamist movements in present-day Egypt, focusing on the Salafi movement, Salafi political parties, politics of the veil, and Islamists-state relations.
Zeinab Abul-Magd
Professor of Middle Eastern history
Oberlin College
Zeinab Abul-Magd is Professor of Middle Eastern history at Oberlin College. She received her PhD in history and political economy and MA in Arab Studies from Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., and BA in political sciences from Cairo University, Egypt. Her first book, Imagined Empires: A History of Revolt in Egypt (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013), won the MESA Conference’s Roger Owen Book Award in 2015. Its Arabic translation appeared as Imbraturiyyat Mutakhayalla: Tarikh al-Thawra fi Sa‘id Misr, 1500-2011 (Cairo: The National Center of Translation, 2018). Her latest book is Militarizing the Nation: Army, Business, and Revolution in Egypt (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017). She published numerous articles at Foreign Policy, Carnegie Endowment, the Atlantic Council, Middle East Institute, and Jadaliyya. Furthermore, she wrote in Arabic occasional columns published in many Egyptian newspapers, including al-Masry al-Youm/Egypt Independent, al-Tahrir, al-Badil, and al-Manassa.