Zeinab Abul-Magd
Biographic Data
| ID | 1665580 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zeinab Abul-Magd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zeinab |
| FAMILY NAME | Abul-Magd |
| SIGNATURE | ABUL-MAGD Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oberlin College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
When Upper Egypt Spoke
Every Ramadan, when Egyptian TV shows enjoy their prime season, at least one series about Upper Egypt is produced and millions of viewers across the country get hooked on it. Those popular dramas usually include a southern hero who is a good-hearted yet poor young man, and his reluctant turn to crime to stand up against corruption and oppression. With romantic depictions of dark and handsome outlaws, the protagonists of these shows always win the…
Diaries of a Surveilled Citizen after a Failed Revolution in Egypt
Under a pseudonym in December 2011, I published an article titled “al-Jaysh wa-l-Iqtisad fi Barr Misr” (The Army and the Economy in Egypt) in Jadaliyya . I wrote it after months of participating in numerous protests in Cairo against the government of the Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF), which took power upon President Hosni Mubarak's abdication in February 2011, and of searching fervidly for the political sources that had allowed the milit…
Militarizing the Nation
Occupying Tahrir Square
This essay attempts to deconstruct myths about the Egyptian revolution. It reveals that it is far from being a peaceful and Cairo-centered revolt made by globalized, middle-class youth. It argues that the US "empire" and its media apparatus have created such myths about Egypt's uprising in order to direct it to become another failed color revolution like its Eastern European counterparts that delivered neoliberal, United States-friendly regimes
Rebellion in the Time of Cholera
British colonialism in Egypt marked a period of a failed empire and an unfinished nation. The colonial administration and the co-opted native ruling elite attempted to unify the north with the south—the Delta with Upper Egypt—into one market, the basis for a modern state. Nevertheless, the empire's capitalism in Upper Egypt proved utterly incompetent, faced bailout crises, and generated environmental catastrophes including the cholera epidemic. T…
Legal Codes and Contemporary Fatawa
In this paper we wish to explore the legal notion of the family in contemporary legal codes and fatwa literature, and how it differs from legal stipulations regarding the nature and purpose of the marriage contract in the pre-modern Sunni fiqh. We are pursuing this brief comparative study by focusing on the issue of tahlil marriage as a legal construct that all of the four classical Sunni madhahib (law schools) did embrace, even though at least o…
Rebellion in the Time of Cholera
British colonialism in Egypt marked a period of a failed empire and an unfinished nation. The colonial administration and the co-opted native ruling elite attempted to unify the north with the south—the Delta with Upper Egypt—into one market, the basis for a modern state. Nevertheless, the empire's capitalism in Upper Egypt proved utterly incompetent, faced bailout crises, and generated environmental catastrophes including the cholera epidemic. T…
Legal Codes and Contemporary Fatawa
In this paper we wish to explore the legal notion of the family in contemporary legal codes and fatwa literature, and how it differs from legal stipulations regarding the nature and purpose of the marriage contract in the pre-modern Sunni fiqh. We are pursuing this brief comparative study by focusing on the issue of tahlil marriage as a legal construct that all of the four classical Sunni madhahib (law schools) did embrace, even though at least o…
Occupying Tahrir Square
This essay attempts to deconstruct myths about the Egyptian revolution. It reveals that it is far from being a peaceful and Cairo-centered revolt made by globalized, middle-class youth. It argues that the US "empire" and its media apparatus have created such myths about Egypt's uprising in order to direct it to become another failed color revolution like its Eastern European counterparts that delivered neoliberal, United States-friendly regimes
When Upper Egypt Spoke
Every Ramadan, when Egyptian TV shows enjoy their prime season, at least one series about Upper Egypt is produced and millions of viewers across the country get hooked on it. Those popular dramas usually include a southern hero who is a good-hearted yet poor young man, and his reluctant turn to crime to stand up against corruption and oppression. With romantic depictions of dark and handsome outlaws, the protagonists of these shows always win the…
Legal Codes and Contemporary Fatawa
In this paper we wish to explore the legal notion of the family in contemporary legal codes and fatwa literature, and how it differs from legal stipulations regarding the nature and purpose of the marriage contract in the pre-modern Sunni fiqh. We are pursuing this brief comparative study by focusing on the issue of tahlil marriage as a legal construct that all of the four classical Sunni madhahib (law schools) did embrace, even though at least o…
Rebellion in the Time of Cholera
British colonialism in Egypt marked a period of a failed empire and an unfinished nation. The colonial administration and the co-opted native ruling elite attempted to unify the north with the south—the Delta with Upper Egypt—into one market, the basis for a modern state. Nevertheless, the empire's capitalism in Upper Egypt proved utterly incompetent, faced bailout crises, and generated environmental catastrophes including the cholera epidemic. T…
Occupying Tahrir Square
This essay attempts to deconstruct myths about the Egyptian revolution. It reveals that it is far from being a peaceful and Cairo-centered revolt made by globalized, middle-class youth. It argues that the US "empire" and its media apparatus have created such myths about Egypt's uprising in order to direct it to become another failed color revolution like its Eastern European counterparts that delivered neoliberal, United States-friendly regimes
Militarizing the Nation
When Upper Egypt Spoke
Every Ramadan, when Egyptian TV shows enjoy their prime season, at least one series about Upper Egypt is produced and millions of viewers across the country get hooked on it. Those popular dramas usually include a southern hero who is a good-hearted yet poor young man, and his reluctant turn to crime to stand up against corruption and oppression. With romantic depictions of dark and handsome outlaws, the protagonists of these shows always win the…
Diaries of a Surveilled Citizen after a Failed Revolution in Egypt
Under a pseudonym in December 2011, I published an article titled “al-Jaysh wa-l-Iqtisad fi Barr Misr” (The Army and the Economy in Egypt) in Jadaliyya . I wrote it after months of participating in numerous protests in Cairo against the government of the Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF), which took power upon President Hosni Mubarak's abdication in February 2011, and of searching fervidly for the political sources that had allowed the milit…
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Economic history (3 works) · Empire (3 works) · History (3 works) · Islamic Studies and History (3 works)