Nada Matta
Biographic Data
| ID | 336342 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nada Matta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nada |
| FAMILY NAME | Matta |
| SIGNATURE | MATTA N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Drexel University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8465-2393 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Public Workers' Mobilizations in Egypt: Perceptions of Sector Potential in Textile and Transport
This article contributes to explaining the rise of labor unrest in Egypt in the early 2000s, led initially by public-sector workers. Using two case studies in textile and transport, the author shows that perceptions of sector potential affected workers' ability to protest and compensated for the decline in their sectors' roles in the economy. The perceptions of underutilization due to corruption and to sector viability based on squandered profits…
Middle-Class Employees in the Egyptian Uprising of 2011
As participants in political and workplace protests, middle-class employees (MCEs) were overrepresented during the 18 days of the Egyptian uprising of 2011. This is quite surprising, because the democracy movement that called for the uprising had limited organizational capacities that could not have mobilized these sectors, and MCEs historically constituted the social base of the Egyptian regime. By the 2000s, however, the decline in state instit…
Class Capacity and Cross-Gender Solidarity: Women's Organizing in an Egyptian Textile Company
Neoliberal restructuring and the feminization of export-led industries are often associated with the disempowerment of women in the workplace. Surprisingly, this disempowerment was not the case with a public textile company in Mahalla, an industrial city north of Cairo. Between 2006 and 2008, workers organized wildcat strikes involving around 24,000 workers. In contrast to the strike waves of the 1980s, women were integral to organizing the strik…
Gilbert Achcar on the Arab Upheaval—Facts and Fiction
Gilbert Achcar discusses with Nada Matta the crisis in the Middle East and North Africa and points out the responsibilities of all elite actors involved, both external and internal to the region. This interview was first published online by Jacobin on 17 December 2015. The Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies thanks Jacobin for allowing reproduction of the interview here
The Second Intifada: A Dual Strategy Arena
Dominant theories fail to explain the use of terror during the Second Palestinian Intifada. Notably, they fail to explain Hamas's abandonment of suicide attacks by 2005. We classified the universe of fatalities on both sides and examined the conflict's patterns of lethal violence. Our analysis of fatality ratios and rates of change by fatality category supports a dual-arena theory of terror. Noting a rapid increase of indiscriminate Israeli civil…
Postcolonial Theory, Multiculturalism and the Israeli Left: A Critique of Post-Zionism
This article is a theoretical critique of the post-Zionist discourse that emerged in Israel in the early 1990s. It examines articles published by a group of leading Israeli intellectuals in Teoriya vi-Bekorit (Theory and Criticism), a Hebrew-language journal which promotes post-Zionist discourse. It focuses on three major components of the discourse: postcolonial theory, identity-politics and multiculturalism. It examines how these terms were imp…
Que cache l'évolution des prêts bancaires aux Etats-Unis depuis la reprise 1992-1993
Matta Nada. Que cache l'évolution des prêts bancaires aux Etats-Unis depuis la reprise 1992-1993 ? . In: Revue économique, volume 46, n°2, 1995. pp. 325-344
Class Capacity and Cross-Gender Solidarity: Women's Organizing in an Egyptian Textile Company
Neoliberal restructuring and the feminization of export-led industries are often associated with the disempowerment of women in the workplace. Surprisingly, this disempowerment was not the case with a public textile company in Mahalla, an industrial city north of Cairo. Between 2006 and 2008, workers organized wildcat strikes involving around 24,000 workers. In contrast to the strike waves of the 1980s, women were integral to organizing the strik…
Que cache l'évolution des prêts bancaires aux Etats-Unis depuis la reprise 1992-1993
Matta Nada. Que cache l'évolution des prêts bancaires aux Etats-Unis depuis la reprise 1992-1993 ? . In: Revue économique, volume 46, n°2, 1995. pp. 325-344
Postcolonial Theory, Multiculturalism and the Israeli Left: A Critique of Post-Zionism
This article is a theoretical critique of the post-Zionist discourse that emerged in Israel in the early 1990s. It examines articles published by a group of leading Israeli intellectuals in Teoriya vi-Bekorit (Theory and Criticism), a Hebrew-language journal which promotes post-Zionist discourse. It focuses on three major components of the discourse: postcolonial theory, identity-politics and multiculturalism. It examines how these terms were imp…
Gilbert Achcar on the Arab Upheaval—Facts and Fiction
Gilbert Achcar discusses with Nada Matta the crisis in the Middle East and North Africa and points out the responsibilities of all elite actors involved, both external and internal to the region. This interview was first published online by Jacobin on 17 December 2015. The Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies thanks Jacobin for allowing reproduction of the interview here
The Second Intifada: A Dual Strategy Arena
Dominant theories fail to explain the use of terror during the Second Palestinian Intifada. Notably, they fail to explain Hamas's abandonment of suicide attacks by 2005. We classified the universe of fatalities on both sides and examined the conflict's patterns of lethal violence. Our analysis of fatality ratios and rates of change by fatality category supports a dual-arena theory of terror. Noting a rapid increase of indiscriminate Israeli civil…
Class Capacity and Cross-Gender Solidarity: Women's Organizing in an Egyptian Textile Company
Neoliberal restructuring and the feminization of export-led industries are often associated with the disempowerment of women in the workplace. Surprisingly, this disempowerment was not the case with a public textile company in Mahalla, an industrial city north of Cairo. Between 2006 and 2008, workers organized wildcat strikes involving around 24,000 workers. In contrast to the strike waves of the 1980s, women were integral to organizing the strik…
Middle-Class Employees in the Egyptian Uprising of 2011
As participants in political and workplace protests, middle-class employees (MCEs) were overrepresented during the 18 days of the Egyptian uprising of 2011. This is quite surprising, because the democracy movement that called for the uprising had limited organizational capacities that could not have mobilized these sectors, and MCEs historically constituted the social base of the Egyptian regime. By the 2000s, however, the decline in state instit…
Public Workers' Mobilizations in Egypt: Perceptions of Sector Potential in Textile and Transport
This article contributes to explaining the rise of labor unrest in Egypt in the early 2000s, led initially by public-sector workers. Using two case studies in textile and transport, the author shows that perceptions of sector potential affected workers' ability to protest and compensated for the decline in their sectors' roles in the economy. The perceptions of underutilization due to corruption and to sector viability based on squandered profits…
Political science (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Economics (2 works) · Economy (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (2 works)