Mohamed Saleh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3628449 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mohamed Saleh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mohamed |
| FAMILY NAME | Saleh |
| SIGNATURE | SALEH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2403-9300 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
School-based smoking prevention strategies for adolescents in a conservative LMIC context: A qualitative study from Egypt
Objective: Adolescent smoking is a critical form of psychoactive substance misuse, particularly in low- and middle-income countries like Egypt, where youth tobacco use remains a public health concern. This study explored current and potential school-based smoking prevention interventions in a conservative low- and middle-income country context, to identify strategies which enhance adolescents' capability, opportunity, and motivation to avoid smok…
Connected national capital: Corporations in colonial and independent Egypt
We use a newly assembled dataset covering all Egyptian corporations, their founders, and political officeholders, to demonstrate the differential impact of political connections on firm performance across two distinctive political and economic contexts. Before Egypt’s independence in 1922, political connections reduced firm profitability, as connected firms were perceived to be aligned with the anti-colonial, nationalist movement, unsettling inve…
Precolonial Elites and Colonial Redistribution of Political Power
Studies of colonialism often associate indirect colonial rule with continuity of the precolonial institutions. Yet, we know less about how colonialism affected the distribution of power between precolonial domestic elites within nominally continuous institutions. We argue that colonial authorities will redistribute power toward elites that are the most congruent with the colonizer’s objectives. We test our theory on the British occupation of Egyp…
Reimagining hope through the political: A post-foundational reading of urban alternatives beyond postpolitics
This paper proposes hope as a lens for critical urban research for the purpose of grasping the interplay between forces of change and stability as manifested in popular uprisings, as well as in broader, self-organised spatial practices in everyday life. This hopeful lens allows for reimagining hope through the concept of ‘the political’, defined in the post-foundationalist literature as an ontological condition assuming the inherent impossibility…
Trade, Slavery, and State Coercion of Labor: Egypt during the First Globalization Era
I investigate the effects of trade on labor coercion under the dual-coercive institutions of slavery and state coercion. Employing novel data from Egypt, I document that the cotton boom in 1861-1865 increased both imported slaveholdings of the rural middle class and state coercion of local workers by the elite. As state coercion reduced wage employment, it reinforced the demand for slaves among the rural middle class. While the abolition of slave…
The demand for extraterritoriality: Religious minorities in nineteenth-century Egypt
The transplantation of European legal systems in the periphery often occurred via semi-colonial institutions, where Europeans were subject to their own jurisdictions that placed them outside the reach of local courts. In nineteenth-century Egypt, the option of extraterritoriality was extended to local non-Muslims. Drawing on Egypt's population censuses in 1848 and 1868, we show that locals did not seek extraterritoriality to place themselves unde…
Refugees and the education of host populations: Evidence from the Syrian inflow to Jordan
The Middle-Eastern marriage pattern? Malthusian dynamics in nineteenth-century Egypt
Malthus predicted that fertility rises with income and that people regulate fertility via regulating marriage. However, evidence on the Malthusian equilibrium has been mostly confined to Europe and East Asia. We employ Egypt's population censuses of 1848 and 1868 to provide the first evidence on the preindustrial Malthusian dynamics in the Middle East and North Africa. At the aggregate level, we document rural Egyptian women having a high fertili…
Boom and Bust
The trans-Saharan slave trade is a much older institution than the trans-Atlantic slave trade. It also lasted long after the British abolition of the trans-Atlantic trade (1807) and its subsequent southward relocation. This chapter first documents the key empirical facts about the trans-Saharan slave trade during the 19th century. It discusses the long-term trends of the trade volume by destination country in North Africa, the geographic sources …
The urban political never sleeps: A framework for tracing emergent counter-responses to depoliticisation
Responding to contemporary mechanisms of depoliticisation, some marginalised groups create political arenas independent from the State. The paper analyses how these groups utilise ‘cracks’ in the political landscape to forge counter-publics which transform unequal power structures. Positing that depoliticisation is always incomplete, an analytical framework is presented for understanding how ‘the political’ emerges and evolves in unexpected space…
Geodiversity of Karst landforms with high priority conservation areas for Sooty Falcon (Falco concolor) in the White Desert National Park, Western Desert, Egypt
This paper examines the relationship between karst landforms and biological diversity. We investigated the distribution of a migratory threatened species, the Sooty Falcon (Falco concolor), within different karst landform zones identified in the White Desert National Park in the Farafra Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. Field surveys of the distribution and breeding of Sooty Falcons were conducted within different karst landforms in the White Desert …
The Fuzzy Side of Publicness: Visualizing Street Politics of Everyday life through the Lens of Distance
The description of public space usually hinges on two narratives of publicness: one narrative criticizes the State’s attempts to condition publicness on the basis of functionality, and the other denotes publicness with space that can be appropriated by ordinary people. However, there are no “pure” moments in which either narrative is neatly differentiated since they are simultaneously active, or fuzzy, in situations of everyday life. Exploring th…
Does industrialization affect segregation? Evidence from nineteenth-century Cairo
On the Road to Heaven: Taxation, Conversions, and the Coptic-Muslim Socioeconomic Gap in Medieval Egypt
Self-selection of converts is an under-studied explanation of inter-religion socioeconomic status (SES) differences. Inspired by this conjecture, I trace the Coptic-Muslim SES gap in Egypt to self-selection-on-SES during Egypt's conversion from Coptic Christianity to Islam. Selection was driven by a poll tax on non-Muslims, imposed from 641 until 1856, which induced poorer Copts to convert to Islam leading Copts to shrink into a better-off minori…
Does Improved Local Supply of Schooling Enhance Intergenerational Mobility in Education? Evidence from Jordan
The impact of the growth of the local supply of public schools in the post-Colonial period on intergenerational mobility in education is a first-order question in the Arab World. This question is examined in Jordan using a unique dataset that links individual data on own schooling and parents' schooling for adults, from a household survey, with the supply of schools in the subdistrict of birth at the time the individual was of age to enroll, from…
Public Mass Modern Education, Religion, and Human Capital in Twentieth-Century Egypt
Public mass modern education was a major pillar of state-led development in the post-Colonial period. I examine the impact of Egypt's transformation in 1951-1953 of traditional elementary schools (kuttabs) into modern primary schools on the Christian-Muslim educational and occupational differentials, which were in favor of Christians. The reform grantedkuttabs' graduates (where Muslim students were over-represented) access to higher stages of edu…
The Reluctant Transformation: State Industrialization, Religion, and Human Capital in Nineteenth-Century Egypt
In 1805-1882, Egypt embarked on one of the earliest state industrialization programs. Using a new data source, the Egyptian nineteenth-century population censuses, I examine the impact of the program on the long-standing inter-religious human capital differentials, which were in favor of Christians. I find that there were inter-religious differentials in reaping the benefits (or losses) of industrialization. The first state industrialization wave…
A Pre-Colonial Population Brought to Light: Digitization of the Nineteenth Century Egyptian Censuses
Knowledge of pre-colonial Middle Eastern populations has been limited by the lack of data. The 1848 and 1868 Egyptian censuses provide two snapshots of the Egyptian population in its early attempts to make the transition into a modern society. These censuses are perhaps the earliest in the Middle East and among the earliest in any non-Western country to include individual-level information on all segments of the population, including females, chi…
Corpus der hieroglyphischen Inschriften aus dem Grab des Tutanchamun
Das Totenbuch in den Thebanischen Beamtengrabern des Neuen Reiches
Ouvrages en langue française publiés ou diffusés en France pendant le deuxième trimestre 1987
conditions gnrales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas chant, des conditions gnrales de la licence souscrite par votre tablissement
A Pre-Colonial Population Brought to Light: Digitization of the Nineteenth Century Egyptian Censuses
Knowledge of pre-colonial Middle Eastern populations has been limited by the lack of data. The 1848 and 1868 Egyptian censuses provide two snapshots of the Egyptian population in its early attempts to make the transition into a modern society. These censuses are perhaps the earliest in the Middle East and among the earliest in any non-Western country to include individual-level information on all segments of the population, including females, chi…
Public Mass Modern Education, Religion, and Human Capital in Twentieth-Century Egypt
Public mass modern education was a major pillar of state-led development in the post-Colonial period. I examine the impact of Egypt's transformation in 1951-1953 of traditional elementary schools (kuttabs) into modern primary schools on the Christian-Muslim educational and occupational differentials, which were in favor of Christians. The reform grantedkuttabs' graduates (where Muslim students were over-represented) access to higher stages of edu…
The Reluctant Transformation: State Industrialization, Religion, and Human Capital in Nineteenth-Century Egypt
In 1805-1882, Egypt embarked on one of the earliest state industrialization programs. Using a new data source, the Egyptian nineteenth-century population censuses, I examine the impact of the program on the long-standing inter-religious human capital differentials, which were in favor of Christians. I find that there were inter-religious differentials in reaping the benefits (or losses) of industrialization. The first state industrialization wave…
Refugees and the education of host populations: Evidence from the Syrian inflow to Jordan
The urban political never sleeps: A framework for tracing emergent counter-responses to depoliticisation
Responding to contemporary mechanisms of depoliticisation, some marginalised groups create political arenas independent from the State. The paper analyses how these groups utilise ‘cracks’ in the political landscape to forge counter-publics which transform unequal power structures. Positing that depoliticisation is always incomplete, an analytical framework is presented for understanding how ‘the political’ emerges and evolves in unexpected space…
Does industrialization affect segregation? Evidence from nineteenth-century Cairo
On the Road to Heaven: Taxation, Conversions, and the Coptic-Muslim Socioeconomic Gap in Medieval Egypt
Self-selection of converts is an under-studied explanation of inter-religion socioeconomic status (SES) differences. Inspired by this conjecture, I trace the Coptic-Muslim SES gap in Egypt to self-selection-on-SES during Egypt's conversion from Coptic Christianity to Islam. Selection was driven by a poll tax on non-Muslims, imposed from 641 until 1856, which induced poorer Copts to convert to Islam leading Copts to shrink into a better-off minori…
The Fuzzy Side of Publicness: Visualizing Street Politics of Everyday life through the Lens of Distance
The description of public space usually hinges on two narratives of publicness: one narrative criticizes the State’s attempts to condition publicness on the basis of functionality, and the other denotes publicness with space that can be appropriated by ordinary people. However, there are no “pure” moments in which either narrative is neatly differentiated since they are simultaneously active, or fuzzy, in situations of everyday life. Exploring th…
Reimagining hope through the political: A post-foundational reading of urban alternatives beyond postpolitics
This paper proposes hope as a lens for critical urban research for the purpose of grasping the interplay between forces of change and stability as manifested in popular uprisings, as well as in broader, self-organised spatial practices in everyday life. This hopeful lens allows for reimagining hope through the concept of ‘the political’, defined in the post-foundationalist literature as an ontological condition assuming the inherent impossibility…
The demand for extraterritoriality: Religious minorities in nineteenth-century Egypt
The transplantation of European legal systems in the periphery often occurred via semi-colonial institutions, where Europeans were subject to their own jurisdictions that placed them outside the reach of local courts. In nineteenth-century Egypt, the option of extraterritoriality was extended to local non-Muslims. Drawing on Egypt's population censuses in 1848 and 1868, we show that locals did not seek extraterritoriality to place themselves unde…
Das Totenbuch in den Thebanischen Beamtengrabern des Neuen Reiches
Ouvrages en langue française publiés ou diffusés en France pendant le deuxième trimestre 1987
conditions gnrales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas chant, des conditions gnrales de la licence souscrite par votre tablissement
Corpus der hieroglyphischen Inschriften aus dem Grab des Tutanchamun
A Pre-Colonial Population Brought to Light: Digitization of the Nineteenth Century Egyptian Censuses
Knowledge of pre-colonial Middle Eastern populations has been limited by the lack of data. The 1848 and 1868 Egyptian censuses provide two snapshots of the Egyptian population in its early attempts to make the transition into a modern society. These censuses are perhaps the earliest in the Middle East and among the earliest in any non-Western country to include individual-level information on all segments of the population, including females, chi…
The Reluctant Transformation: State Industrialization, Religion, and Human Capital in Nineteenth-Century Egypt
In 1805-1882, Egypt embarked on one of the earliest state industrialization programs. Using a new data source, the Egyptian nineteenth-century population censuses, I examine the impact of the program on the long-standing inter-religious human capital differentials, which were in favor of Christians. I find that there were inter-religious differentials in reaping the benefits (or losses) of industrialization. The first state industrialization wave…
Does Improved Local Supply of Schooling Enhance Intergenerational Mobility in Education? Evidence from Jordan
The impact of the growth of the local supply of public schools in the post-Colonial period on intergenerational mobility in education is a first-order question in the Arab World. This question is examined in Jordan using a unique dataset that links individual data on own schooling and parents' schooling for adults, from a household survey, with the supply of schools in the subdistrict of birth at the time the individual was of age to enroll, from…
Public Mass Modern Education, Religion, and Human Capital in Twentieth-Century Egypt
Public mass modern education was a major pillar of state-led development in the post-Colonial period. I examine the impact of Egypt's transformation in 1951-1953 of traditional elementary schools (kuttabs) into modern primary schools on the Christian-Muslim educational and occupational differentials, which were in favor of Christians. The reform grantedkuttabs' graduates (where Muslim students were over-represented) access to higher stages of edu…
Does industrialization affect segregation? Evidence from nineteenth-century Cairo
On the Road to Heaven: Taxation, Conversions, and the Coptic-Muslim Socioeconomic Gap in Medieval Egypt
Self-selection of converts is an under-studied explanation of inter-religion socioeconomic status (SES) differences. Inspired by this conjecture, I trace the Coptic-Muslim SES gap in Egypt to self-selection-on-SES during Egypt's conversion from Coptic Christianity to Islam. Selection was driven by a poll tax on non-Muslims, imposed from 641 until 1856, which induced poorer Copts to convert to Islam leading Copts to shrink into a better-off minori…
Geodiversity of Karst landforms with high priority conservation areas for Sooty Falcon (Falco concolor) in the White Desert National Park, Western Desert, Egypt
This paper examines the relationship between karst landforms and biological diversity. We investigated the distribution of a migratory threatened species, the Sooty Falcon (Falco concolor), within different karst landform zones identified in the White Desert National Park in the Farafra Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. Field surveys of the distribution and breeding of Sooty Falcons were conducted within different karst landforms in the White Desert …
The Fuzzy Side of Publicness: Visualizing Street Politics of Everyday life through the Lens of Distance
The description of public space usually hinges on two narratives of publicness: one narrative criticizes the State’s attempts to condition publicness on the basis of functionality, and the other denotes publicness with space that can be appropriated by ordinary people. However, there are no “pure” moments in which either narrative is neatly differentiated since they are simultaneously active, or fuzzy, in situations of everyday life. Exploring th…
Boom and Bust
The trans-Saharan slave trade is a much older institution than the trans-Atlantic slave trade. It also lasted long after the British abolition of the trans-Atlantic trade (1807) and its subsequent southward relocation. This chapter first documents the key empirical facts about the trans-Saharan slave trade during the 19th century. It discusses the long-term trends of the trade volume by destination country in North Africa, the geographic sources …
The urban political never sleeps: A framework for tracing emergent counter-responses to depoliticisation
Responding to contemporary mechanisms of depoliticisation, some marginalised groups create political arenas independent from the State. The paper analyses how these groups utilise ‘cracks’ in the political landscape to forge counter-publics which transform unequal power structures. Positing that depoliticisation is always incomplete, an analytical framework is presented for understanding how ‘the political’ emerges and evolves in unexpected space…
Refugees and the education of host populations: Evidence from the Syrian inflow to Jordan
The Middle-Eastern marriage pattern? Malthusian dynamics in nineteenth-century Egypt
Malthus predicted that fertility rises with income and that people regulate fertility via regulating marriage. However, evidence on the Malthusian equilibrium has been mostly confined to Europe and East Asia. We employ Egypt's population censuses of 1848 and 1868 to provide the first evidence on the preindustrial Malthusian dynamics in the Middle East and North Africa. At the aggregate level, we document rural Egyptian women having a high fertili…
Reimagining hope through the political: A post-foundational reading of urban alternatives beyond postpolitics
This paper proposes hope as a lens for critical urban research for the purpose of grasping the interplay between forces of change and stability as manifested in popular uprisings, as well as in broader, self-organised spatial practices in everyday life. This hopeful lens allows for reimagining hope through the concept of ‘the political’, defined in the post-foundationalist literature as an ontological condition assuming the inherent impossibility…
Trade, Slavery, and State Coercion of Labor: Egypt during the First Globalization Era
I investigate the effects of trade on labor coercion under the dual-coercive institutions of slavery and state coercion. Employing novel data from Egypt, I document that the cotton boom in 1861-1865 increased both imported slaveholdings of the rural middle class and state coercion of local workers by the elite. As state coercion reduced wage employment, it reinforced the demand for slaves among the rural middle class. While the abolition of slave…
The demand for extraterritoriality: Religious minorities in nineteenth-century Egypt
The transplantation of European legal systems in the periphery often occurred via semi-colonial institutions, where Europeans were subject to their own jurisdictions that placed them outside the reach of local courts. In nineteenth-century Egypt, the option of extraterritoriality was extended to local non-Muslims. Drawing on Egypt's population censuses in 1848 and 1868, we show that locals did not seek extraterritoriality to place themselves unde…
School-based smoking prevention strategies for adolescents in a conservative LMIC context: A qualitative study from Egypt
Objective: Adolescent smoking is a critical form of psychoactive substance misuse, particularly in low- and middle-income countries like Egypt, where youth tobacco use remains a public health concern. This study explored current and potential school-based smoking prevention interventions in a conservative low- and middle-income country context, to identify strategies which enhance adolescents' capability, opportunity, and motivation to avoid smok…
Connected national capital: Corporations in colonial and independent Egypt
We use a newly assembled dataset covering all Egyptian corporations, their founders, and political officeholders, to demonstrate the differential impact of political connections on firm performance across two distinctive political and economic contexts. Before Egypt’s independence in 1922, political connections reduced firm profitability, as connected firms were perceived to be aligned with the anti-colonial, nationalist movement, unsettling inve…
Precolonial Elites and Colonial Redistribution of Political Power
Studies of colonialism often associate indirect colonial rule with continuity of the precolonial institutions. Yet, we know less about how colonialism affected the distribution of power between precolonial domestic elites within nominally continuous institutions. We argue that colonial authorities will redistribute power toward elites that are the most congruent with the colonizer’s objectives. We test our theory on the British occupation of Egyp…
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