This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This essay examines "Islamic" influence on modern law, with special reference to the introduction of pre-emption (shufʿa), ostensibly of ...

First introduced in the 1960s, cassette tapes quickly outpaced vinyl records as the medium by which spoken words and music were recorded, distributed, and shared. Tapes flooded markets around the ...

Hamed Nada’s “Folkways” (nd) in When Arts Become Liberty: The Egyptian Surrealists (1938–65) exhibition (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) The calls to revise the canon of art history have ...

The vibrant capital of Egypt offers an enchanting experience that any traveler would want to be immersed in. With its deep-rooted history and significant African and Middle Eastern heritage, Cairo, ...

“Nasser's Republic: The Making Of Modern Egypt” is a documentary about Gamal Abdel Nasser, one of the Arab world's most transformative leaders. In 1952, then a young, unknown Egyptian colonel, Nasser ...

Prime ministers, presidents and royalty descended on Cairo this weekend to attend the spectacle-laden inauguration of a sprawling new museum built near the Pyramids to house one of the world's richest ...

Over the course of 3,000 years of Egypt’s history, six women ascended to become female kings of the fertile land and sit atop its authoritarian power structure. Several ruled only briefly, and only as ...

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CAIRO, Oct 4 (MENA) – Egypt’s First Lady Entisar al-Sisi has stressed that technical education is a fundamental pillar in building modern Egypt’s renaissance. Her remarks came during the “A Technician ...

No one doubts Muhammad Ali laid the foundations for the modern state of Egypt – but whether he was Albanian, and much else besides, is a bigger question. Every rags-to-riches story ends up falling ...

Thanks to modern images of Egypt's iconic pyramids towering over a vast sandscape, many people assume this area is, and always has been, a desert. But considering that climates and landscapes can ...

American taxpayers send more foreign aid to Egypt than to any other nation except Israel. But America's nearly one and a half billion dollars a year is going to a regime accused of the worst abuses in ...