Constructing and policing the "foreigner" in colonial and post-colonial Egypt - Detailseite

The seminar, held jointly with Rim Naguib (Centre Marc Bloch), will be held in English and will focus on "foreigners" in 20th century Egypt.
Egypt attracted large numbers of migrants throughout the 19th and the first quarter of the 20th century, who were in search of economic opportunities or escaping political upheavals in Europe. The resulting demography of Egypt's urban centers was marked by a significant diversity, often grieved as an ephemeral cosmopolitanism that was cut short by the rise of Egyptian nationalism and the subsequent exodus of "foreigners" by the late 50s and early 60s. This course will approach this dominant culturalist narrative critically. It will inquire into the political factors behind the construction of the "foreignness" of certain groups of residents, in the colonial and post-colonial states' drive to police dissent and enact state sovereignty. Students will be invited to engage critically with both colonialist and nationalist narratives, by examining biographies that escape the dichotomous categories of national/foreign, as well as waves of cross-ethnic solidarity and common socialist struggle, and the state's repression of the latter through denial of Egyptian nationality or residence rights and deportation.

Will Hanley, Identifying with Nationality: Europeans, Ottomans, and Egyptians in Alexandria. Columbia University Press, 2017.

Angelos Dalachanis, The Greek Exodus from Egypt: Diaspora Politics and Emigration, 1937-1962, New York, Berghahn Books, 2017.

Joel Beinin, The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: Culture, Politics and the Formation of Modern Diaspora, University of California Press, 1998.

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