Modern Egypt: A History. Yoav Di-Capua. Fall 2011

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1 Modern Egypt: A History Yoav Di-Capua Fall 2011 HIS 364G MES 322K ISL 372 Classes MWF 11:00-12:00 BUR 136 Office Hours: Frididay 12:15 2:15 and by appointment. ydi@mail.utexas.edu TA: To be announced. Course Description: In less than a century Egypt experienced four radically different forms of political community, economic organization and public culture as it swiftly moved from Colonialism to Liberalism, Arab-Socialism and Authoritarian Capitalism. A fifth shift, Islamic Republicanism is pending. In each stage Egypt went through a complete reshuffling of the state structure and public culture. Each of these phases was experienced with great emotional intensity. The aim of this class is to critically examine the social, political and intellectual dynamics which shaped these experiences. What sort of expectations did Egyptians have in each phase, who came up with these revisionist ideas, and who put them to work and how? Course s Website: Course Requirements and Grading: Midterm (25%), Final (40%), two Written reports of two single spaced pages each (25%), Participation and quizzes (10%). Attendance is mandatory (One grade off (+, -) for more than three classes skipped). Course Packet: Course packet is available at Jenn s Copy and Binding 2200 Guadalupe jenns@io.com Deadlines: - First Report: date and time will be announced (The Open Door) - Mid-term exam: October 14 th (Take home exam) - Second Report: date and time will be announced (Yaqubyian Bulding) 1

2 - Final exam: date and time will be announced. Accommodations: At the beginning of the semester, students with disabilities who need special accommodations should notify me by presenting a letter prepared by the Services for Students with Disabilities Office (SSD tel ) Academic Integrity: Students should maintain a high standard of individual honor in his or her scholarly work. All work handed in by students should be their own work, prepared without unauthorized assistance. All cases of academic dishonesty will be treated with due severity. For further information visit the Student Judicial Services website at or call *Please bring a hard copy with your personal annotations to class* Mandatory Reading Available at Co-op or at bookfinder.com Alaa Al Aswani, The Yacoubian Building (Cairo: AUC, 2004) Latifa al-zayyat, The Open Door (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2000) Robert Tignor, Egypt: A Short History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010) Film: selected screening: Adrift on the Nile (Hussein Kamal, Min.) Four Women of Egypt (Tahani Rached Canada/Egypt, 1997, 90 min) 2

3 Part I: Liberalism without Democracy Introductory Lecture and Agenda Class 1: Introducing Modern Egypt August 24 h Class 2: Out of the Ottoman Order: the 19 th Century August 31 st September 2 nd Robert Tignor, Egypt: A Short History, Chapter 9, 10. Khaled Fahmi, The Era of Muhammad Ali Pasha, , Cambridge History of Egypt Vol. II, pp Class 3: Nationalism and the Spirit of 1919 September 7 th Blank Map Quiz M. W, Daly, The British Occupation, , Cambridge History of Egypt Vol. II, pp James Jankowski, Israel Gershoni, Egypt, Islam and the Arabs: The Search for Egyptian Nationhood, (Oxford, 1986), pp , Class 4: Liberalism without Democracy September 9 th and 12 th Selma Botman, The Liberal Age, , Cambridge History of Egypt, Vol. II, pp Robert Tignor, Egypt: A Short History, Chapter 10. 3

4 Class 5: Literary Renaissance and the Middle Class September 14 th September 16 th Israel Gershoni, The Evolution of National Culture in Modern Egypt: Intellectual Formation and Social Diffusion, , Poetics Today, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Summer 1992), pp Lucie Ryzova, Egyptianizing Modernity: The "New Effendiyya" Social and Cultural Constructions of the Middle Class in Egypt under the Monarchy in Arthur Goldschmidt, Amy Johnson and Barak Salmoni (eds.), Re-envisioning Egypt (Cairo: AUC Press, 2005), pp Class 6: Political Economy, : Part I September 19 th and 21 st Joel Beinin, Egypt: Society and Economy, , Cambridge History of Egypt, Vol. II, pp Eric Davis, Challenging Colonialism: Bank Misr and Egyptian Industrialization, (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1983), pp Class 7: Political Economy, : Part II September 23 rd and 26 th Robert Tignor, Bank Misr and Foreign Capitalism, International Journal of Middle East Studies Vol. 8, No. 2 (Apr. 1977), pp Robert Vitalis, On the Theory and Practice of Compradors: The Role of Abbud Pasha in the Egyptian Political Economy International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Aug., 1990), pp Class 8: The Radicalization of the 1930s September 28 th and 31 st Lia Brynjar, The Society of The Muslim Brothers in Egypt: The Rise of An Islamic Mass Movement, (Reading, England: Ithaca, 1998), pp James Jankowski and Israel Gershoni, Redefining the Egyptian Nation, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), pp

5 Class 9: Liberal Thought: Taha Hussein October 3 rd Albert Hourani, Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age, pp Primary Source: Taha Hussein, The Future of Culture in Egypt (New York: Octagon Books, 1977), Chapters, 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12. Class 10: The Cosmopolitan Upper Class October 5 th Magda Baraka, The Egyptian Upper Class Between Revolutions, (Reading: Ithaca Press, 1998), pp Michael Haag, Alexandria: City of Memory (New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press, 2004), pp Samir W. Raaft, Cairo: The Glory Years: Who Built What, When, Why and for Whom (Alexandria: Harpocrates, 2003), pp Class 11: The Collapse of the Liberal Order October 7 th Hamied Ansari, Egypt: The Stalled Society (New York: SUNY, 1986), pp Joel Gordon, Nasser's Blessed Movement: Egypt's Free Officers and the July revolution (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp Part II: Nasserism Class 12: Nassersim: October 10 th Robert Tignor, Egypt: A Short History. Chapter 11 (only Nasser era) Adeed Dawisha, Arab Nationalism in the Twentieth Century: From Triumph to Despair (Princeton, N.J. 2003), chapters 7-8. Class 13: The New Generation October 12 th and 14 th FIRST REPORT IS DUE 5

6 Latifa al-zayyat, The Open Door (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2000). The Burning of Cairo: Book report due. Class 14: Nasserism as a Civic Experience October 17 th TAKE HOME MIDTERM Film shown in class. A Drift on the Nile Raymond William Baker, Egypt's Uncertain Revolution under Nasser and Sadat (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978), pp Joel Gordon, Nasser: Hero of the Arab Nation, pp Class 15: The Demise of Nasserism October 19 th and 21 st Film shown in class. A Drift on the Nile. Raymond, Hinnebusch, Egyptian Politics under Sadat: The Post-Populist Development of an Authoritarian-Modernizing State (Cambridge 1985), pp Joel Gordon, Nasser: Hero of the Arab Nation, pp Part III: Public Life under Sadat and Mubarak MID TERM TAKE HOME EXAM IS DUE Class 16: Authoritarian Capitalism October 24 th,26 th and 28 th James Jankowski, Egypt: A Short History (Oxford: One World, 2000), pp

7 Raymond, Hinnebusch, Egyptian Politics under Sadat: The Post-Populist Development of an Authoritarian-Modernizing State (Cambridge 1985), pp Robert Tignor, Egypt: A Short History, Chapter 11 and 12. PART IV: Political Islam Class 17: The Intellectual History of Political Islam October 31 st Kepel, Gilles, The Roots of Radical Islam (London: Saqi, 2005), pp Zollner, Barbara. "Prison Talk: the Muslim Brotherhood's Internal Struggle During Gamal Abdel Nasser's Persecution, 1954 to 1971," International Journal of Middle East Studies 39, no. 03 (August 2007). Class 18: Political Islam in Action November 2 nd Carrie Rosefsky Wickham, Mobilizing Islam: Religion, Activism, and Political Change in Egypt (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002), pp Class 19: Islamism and Education November 4 th Starrett, Gregory, Putting Islam to Work Education, Politics, and Religious Transformation in Egypt (Berkeley: Berkeley U. Press, 1998), Ch. 7. Carrie Rosefsky Wickham, Mobilizing Islam: Religion, Activism, and Political Change in Egypt (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002), Chas Part V: Themes 7

8 Class 20: The Copts November 7 th Pieternella Van Doorn-Harder, Copts: Fully Egyptian, but for a Tattoo? in Maya Shatzmiller, Nationalism and Minority Identities in Islamic Societies (Montreal: McGill UP, 2005), pp The Egyptian Copts: Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Definition of Identity for a Religious Minority, in Maya Shatzmiller, Nationalism and Minority, pp Class : Feminism, Nation and State November 9 th and 11 th Film: Four Women of Egypt: Beth Baron, Egypt as a Women: Nationalism, Gender, Politics (Berkeley: UCP, 2005), pp Margot Badran, Feminists, Islam, and Nation: Gender and the Making of Modern Egypt (Princeton: PUP, 1995), pp Selma Botman, Engendering Citizenship in Egypt (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999), pp Part VI: The New Revolution SECOND REPORT IS DUE Discussion of Imarat Yaqubyian Report Due Class 23: Imarat Yaqubyian November 14 th Class 24: Breakdown of the Mubarak Regime November 21 st 23 rd 28 th 30 th December 2 nd Asef Bayat, Making Islam Democratic, Chapter 5 Egypt s passive Revolution Alaa al-aswani, On the State of Egypt: What Made the Revolution Inevitable? 8