Gatekeepers of the Arab PastHistorians and History Writing in Twentieth-Century Egypt

Di-Capua, Yoav

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“…Similarly, in 2004, at the height of the program of economic liberalization in Mubarak's Egypt, a group of American and Egyptian scholars established the Economic and Business History Research Center at the American University in Cairo (Soliman, ; The Chronicles , ). Both of these initiatives created archives that would enable the reexamining of the history of capitalist transformations in modern Turkey and Egypt, and in the case of Egypt, bypass restricted access to state archives (Di‐Capua, , p. 335).…”

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The economy by other means: The historiography of capitalism in the modern Middle East

Cheta

2018

History Compass

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The history of modern political economy, a major subfield within Middle Eastern Studies, is largely considered to have been eclipsed by the growing interest in the history and politics of identity in the 1990s. In this article, I explain the newfound academic interest in engaging with capitalism as a historical object in relation to the modern Middle East. I argue that the new rubric of “History of Capitalism,” which was forged in the context of the contemporary crisis of capitalism, has allowed historians to approach the economy anew with analytical tools drawn mainly from cultural history. Based on surveying this new body of scholarship on the modern Middle East, I suggest organizing it around three main themes: Economic Thought, Consumerism, and Infrastructure. After discussing the main research questions animating each of these categories, I conclude by highlighting the potential inherent in the historiographical eclecticism of this wave of interest in studying capitalist processes.

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Section: From Economic History To History Of Capitalismmentioning

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The economy by other means: The historiography of capitalism in the modern Middle East

Cheta

2018

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“…I even knew that that a history of the recent past is a 'history without documents'. A history without documents refers both to the absence (or inaccessibility) of the formal archive, as well as the alternative histories we conjure, to fill in the archive as a constitutive imagination (Di-Capua, 2009;El Shakry, 2015). The material ruination of the past, the actual withering away of paper, along with the physical demolition of the city, the literal death of a researcher, came together to form an evocative image of loss, lack and absence (Meier, Frers, & Sigvardsdotter, 2013;Stoler, 2013).…”

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Where the dust settles: fieldwork, subjectivity and materiality in Cairo

Nassar

2017

Contemporary Social Science

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“…Histories of archaeology in Egypt have often been hampered by the unavailability of Arabic-language sources, most notably the archives of the DoA. As Yoav Di-Capua (2009) discusses, the politically selective curation of Egyptian state archives more generally is also problematic. Critically used, however, Egyptian press sources place the (more readily available, but themselves historically contingent) archives of Euro-American archaeological excavations in perspective.…”

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Credibility, civility, and the archaeological dig house in mid-1950’s Egypt

Carruthers

2019

Journal of Social Archaeology

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This article argues that forms of civility governing who possessed the credibility to carry out archaeological fieldwork altered in Egypt during the post-World War II era of decolonization. Incorporating Arabic sources, the article focuses on the preparation of a dig house used during an excavation run by the Egyptian Department of Antiquities and the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania at the site of Mit Rahina, Egypt, in the mid-1950s. The study demonstrates how the colonial genealogies of such structures converged with political changes heralded by the rise of Nasser. Preparing the dig house, Euro-American archaeologists involved with the excavation had to abide by social norms practiced by the Egyptians who had recently taken charge of the Department of Antiquities. Given that these norms often perpetuated older hierarchies of race, gender, and class, however, the article questions what the end of colonialism actually meant for archaeology.

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Gatekeepers of the Arab PastHistorians and History Writing in Twentieth-Century Egypt

Cited by 14 publications

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The economy by other means: The historiography of capitalism in the modern Middle East

The economy by other means: The historiography of capitalism in the modern Middle East

Where the dust settles: fieldwork, subjectivity and materiality in Cairo

Credibility, civility, and the archaeological dig house in mid-1950’s Egypt

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