Yoav Di‐capua
Biographic Data
| ID | 4000361 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yoav Di‐capua |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yoav |
| FAMILY NAME | Di‐capua |
| SIGNATURE | DI CAPUA Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Melancholy Acts: Defeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World, written by Nouri Gana
Genocidal Mirroring in Israel/Palestine
Rather than marking the onset of a new type of violence, rooted in the fantasy of the disappearance of the “other,” the 7 October war signifies the peak of a once-marginalized pattern of genocidal
Revolutionary Decolonization and the Formation of the Sacred: The Case of Egypt
Egypt's successful struggle over ownership of the Suez Canal under President Gamal ʿAbd al-Nasser in 1956 is usually seen as pivotal in the history of decolonization. Scholars have written about how the Suez War brought many of the classical themes of decolonization into focus, such as sovereignty over natural resources, the hegemony of the new Cold War order, the rise of popular anti-colonial nationalism and the international politics of develop…
Palestine Comes to Paris: The Global Sixties and the Making of a Universal Cause
In the early 1960s, Israeli diplomats based in Paris noted that student life there had become political in new ways that threatened to undermine Israel’s image and standing in the public mind. In an effort to understand the growing international student body and its nine thousand well-integrated Arab students, the embassy asked Israeli students to spy on their colleagues and submit detailed reports about their political associations, thoughts, op…
Revolution and Disenchantment: Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation, written by Fadi A. Bardawil
Revolutionary Justice: Special Courts and the Formation of Republican Egypt
One should not dismiss show trials, special tribunals, revolutionary courts, or people's courts as meaningless spectacles of state propaganda with little historical, political, and judicial value. This is the main message of Yoram Meital's exciting new book and it is especially valid in Egypt, where the political and judicial realities of the post-2011 revolution echo those of the early 1950s, with a similar drive toward juridical exceptionalism.…
Why Decolonization
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Haunted: On the New Arabic Translation of Sartre's Anti-Semite and Jew
Two years ago, without any apparent explanation, a little-known Egyptian scholar translated Jean-Paul Sartre's Anti-Semite and Jew (originally published as Réflexions sur la Question Juive , 1946) into Arabic. Widely acknowledged as an experimental and highly influential theory of anti-Semitism in the 1960s, Sartre's text had already had a profound, yet indirect, influence on an entire class of left-wing Arab intellectuals who used it in order to…
The Slow Revolution: May 1968 in the Arab World
The Messy Career of Historicism
How does the European historiographical apparatus, or historicism, translate to a non-European context such as that of India? Drawing on Dipesh Chakrabarty's work The Calling of History, this essay suggests that instead of providing a rigid definition of “non-European” historicism, we should attempt to salvage its Indian and non-European specificity. The dense correspondence that Chakrabarty uncovered allows us to examine the interpersonal and no…
Trauma and Other Historians
If one practical way to define trauma is to consider it as a chronic inability to access and process catastrophic events, that is, as a systematic and haunting blockage of memory formation and reclamation of past experiences, then historians have an inherent stake in the concept. This basic observation is not new, of course, but until now only historians of the Holocaust have evinced serious and consistent interest in the vast literature on Traum…
Marwa Elshakry. Reading Darwin in Arabic, 1860–1950
Nineteenth-century Europe gave to the world a contagious habit of mind that philosopher Maurice Mandelbaum defined as “historicism”: “the supposition that an adequate understanding of human reality can be gained only through considering it in terms of the place which it secured for itself, and the role which it played within a historical process of development” (History, Man, and Reason: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Thought [1971], p. 41). Among…
Homeward Bound: Ḥusayn Muruwwah’s Integrative Quest for Authenticity
Ḥusayn Muruwwah was one of the most influential Arab intellectuals of the second half of the twentieth century. In the 1950s and 1960s he was critical in reinventing literary criticism and was at the vanguard of the postcolonial intelligentsia and its search for a new Arab culture. Before that he was cleric at Najaf, then a follower of Arab Liberalism, then a Marxist and, eventually a Communist. In the process of this intellectual metamorphosis M…
The Traumatic Subjectivity of Ṣunʿ Allāh Ibrāhīm’s Dhāt
In contrast with previous readings of Ṣunʿ Allāh Ibrāhīm’s Dhāt , this article argues that the novel’s conceptual center is not simply a socio-political critique of materialism, but rather a case of psychological trauma, of which materialism is just a symptom. By examining narrative structure and temporality, this article theorizes the affects of trauma towards explaining how an entire Egyptian generation came to experience the past, or history, …
Arab Existentialism: An Invisible Chapter in the Intellectual History of Decolonization
IN MAY 1944, WHEN THE EGYPTIAN philosopher Abd al-Rahman Badawi defended his dissertation on existential time, Taha Husayn, the doyen of modern Arab letters, declared it the birth of modern Arab philosophy. The defense was a national event, and the widely distributed Egyptian daily al-Ahram immediately shared the news with its readers.1 Six years later, Badawi announced that he had devised a new philosophy for “our generation.” He called it exist…
Gatekeepers of the Arab PastHistorians and History Writing in Twentieth-Century Egypt: Historians and history writing in twentieth century Egypt
Historicizing Ottoman Egypt: 1890-1906 2. Talking History: 1906-1920 3. The House of Records: The 1920s 4. Competing for History: 1930-1952 5. Ghurbal's School: 1930-1952 6. Partisan Historiography: The 1940s and Beyond 7. Demonstrating History: The 1950s 8. Controlling History: The 1960s 9. Authoritarian Pluralism: 1970-2000 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
Gatekeepers of the Arab Past: Historians and History Writing in Twentieth-Century Egypt
This groundbreaking study illuminates the Egyptian experience of modernity by critically analyzing the foremost medium through which it was articulated: history. The first comprehensive analysis of a Middle Eastern intellectual tradition, Gatekeepers of the Past examines a system of knowledge that replaced the intellectual and methodological conventions of Islamic historiography only at the very end of the nineteenth century. Covering more than o…
The Professional Worldview of the Effendi Historian
This paper is part of a History Compass conference cluster tracing the formation of national culture in Egypt. Guest edited by Walter Armbrust, this cluster of articles was originally part of a conference in Oxford on January 12–13, 2007, organized by Walter Armbrust, Ronald Nettler, and Lucie Ryzova, and funded by the Middle East Centre (St. Antony's), The Faculty of Oriental Studies, The Khalid bin ‘Abdullah Al‐Sa’ud Professorship (Professor Cl…
Common Skies Divided Horizons: Aviation, Class and Modernity in Early Twentieth Century Egypt
Journal Article Common Skies Divided Horizons: Aviation, Class and Modernity in Early Twentieth Century Egypt Get access Yoav Di-Capua Yoav Di-Capua Department of History, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712-0527 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 41, Issue 4, Summer 2008, Pages 917–942, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.0.0024 Published: 01 July 2008
Why Decolonization
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Arab Existentialism: An Invisible Chapter in the Intellectual History of Decolonization
IN MAY 1944, WHEN THE EGYPTIAN philosopher Abd al-Rahman Badawi defended his dissertation on existential time, Taha Husayn, the doyen of modern Arab letters, declared it the birth of modern Arab philosophy. The defense was a national event, and the widely distributed Egyptian daily al-Ahram immediately shared the news with its readers.1 Six years later, Badawi announced that he had devised a new philosophy for “our generation.” He called it exist…
The Slow Revolution: May 1968 in the Arab World
Palestine Comes to Paris: The Global Sixties and the Making of a Universal Cause
In the early 1960s, Israeli diplomats based in Paris noted that student life there had become political in new ways that threatened to undermine Israel’s image and standing in the public mind. In an effort to understand the growing international student body and its nine thousand well-integrated Arab students, the embassy asked Israeli students to spy on their colleagues and submit detailed reports about their political associations, thoughts, op…
Revolutionary Decolonization and the Formation of the Sacred: The Case of Egypt
Egypt's successful struggle over ownership of the Suez Canal under President Gamal ʿAbd al-Nasser in 1956 is usually seen as pivotal in the history of decolonization. Scholars have written about how the Suez War brought many of the classical themes of decolonization into focus, such as sovereignty over natural resources, the hegemony of the new Cold War order, the rise of popular anti-colonial nationalism and the international politics of develop…
Haunted: On the New Arabic Translation of Sartre's Anti-Semite and Jew
Two years ago, without any apparent explanation, a little-known Egyptian scholar translated Jean-Paul Sartre's Anti-Semite and Jew (originally published as Réflexions sur la Question Juive , 1946) into Arabic. Widely acknowledged as an experimental and highly influential theory of anti-Semitism in the 1960s, Sartre's text had already had a profound, yet indirect, influence on an entire class of left-wing Arab intellectuals who used it in order to…
Trauma and Other Historians
If one practical way to define trauma is to consider it as a chronic inability to access and process catastrophic events, that is, as a systematic and haunting blockage of memory formation and reclamation of past experiences, then historians have an inherent stake in the concept. This basic observation is not new, of course, but until now only historians of the Holocaust have evinced serious and consistent interest in the vast literature on Traum…
Homeward Bound: Ḥusayn Muruwwah’s Integrative Quest for Authenticity
Ḥusayn Muruwwah was one of the most influential Arab intellectuals of the second half of the twentieth century. In the 1950s and 1960s he was critical in reinventing literary criticism and was at the vanguard of the postcolonial intelligentsia and its search for a new Arab culture. Before that he was cleric at Najaf, then a follower of Arab Liberalism, then a Marxist and, eventually a Communist. In the process of this intellectual metamorphosis M…
The Traumatic Subjectivity of Ṣunʿ Allāh Ibrāhīm’s Dhāt
In contrast with previous readings of Ṣunʿ Allāh Ibrāhīm’s Dhāt , this article argues that the novel’s conceptual center is not simply a socio-political critique of materialism, but rather a case of psychological trauma, of which materialism is just a symptom. By examining narrative structure and temporality, this article theorizes the affects of trauma towards explaining how an entire Egyptian generation came to experience the past, or history, …
The Professional Worldview of the Effendi Historian
This paper is part of a History Compass conference cluster tracing the formation of national culture in Egypt. Guest edited by Walter Armbrust, this cluster of articles was originally part of a conference in Oxford on January 12–13, 2007, organized by Walter Armbrust, Ronald Nettler, and Lucie Ryzova, and funded by the Middle East Centre (St. Antony's), The Faculty of Oriental Studies, The Khalid bin ‘Abdullah Al‐Sa’ud Professorship (Professor Cl…
Common Skies Divided Horizons: Aviation, Class and Modernity in Early Twentieth Century Egypt
Journal Article Common Skies Divided Horizons: Aviation, Class and Modernity in Early Twentieth Century Egypt Get access Yoav Di-Capua Yoav Di-Capua Department of History, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712-0527 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 41, Issue 4, Summer 2008, Pages 917–942, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.0.0024 Published: 01 July 2008
The Professional Worldview of the Effendi Historian
This paper is part of a History Compass conference cluster tracing the formation of national culture in Egypt. Guest edited by Walter Armbrust, this cluster of articles was originally part of a conference in Oxford on January 12–13, 2007, organized by Walter Armbrust, Ronald Nettler, and Lucie Ryzova, and funded by the Middle East Centre (St. Antony's), The Faculty of Oriental Studies, The Khalid bin ‘Abdullah Al‐Sa’ud Professorship (Professor Cl…
Common Skies Divided Horizons: Aviation, Class and Modernity in Early Twentieth Century Egypt
Journal Article Common Skies Divided Horizons: Aviation, Class and Modernity in Early Twentieth Century Egypt Get access Yoav Di-Capua Yoav Di-Capua Department of History, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712-0527 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 41, Issue 4, Summer 2008, Pages 917–942, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.0.0024 Published: 01 July 2008
Gatekeepers of the Arab PastHistorians and History Writing in Twentieth-Century Egypt: Historians and history writing in twentieth century Egypt
Historicizing Ottoman Egypt: 1890-1906 2. Talking History: 1906-1920 3. The House of Records: The 1920s 4. Competing for History: 1930-1952 5. Ghurbal's School: 1930-1952 6. Partisan Historiography: The 1940s and Beyond 7. Demonstrating History: The 1950s 8. Controlling History: The 1960s 9. Authoritarian Pluralism: 1970-2000 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
Gatekeepers of the Arab Past: Historians and History Writing in Twentieth-Century Egypt
This groundbreaking study illuminates the Egyptian experience of modernity by critically analyzing the foremost medium through which it was articulated: history. The first comprehensive analysis of a Middle Eastern intellectual tradition, Gatekeepers of the Past examines a system of knowledge that replaced the intellectual and methodological conventions of Islamic historiography only at the very end of the nineteenth century. Covering more than o…
The Traumatic Subjectivity of Ṣunʿ Allāh Ibrāhīm’s Dhāt
In contrast with previous readings of Ṣunʿ Allāh Ibrāhīm’s Dhāt , this article argues that the novel’s conceptual center is not simply a socio-political critique of materialism, but rather a case of psychological trauma, of which materialism is just a symptom. By examining narrative structure and temporality, this article theorizes the affects of trauma towards explaining how an entire Egyptian generation came to experience the past, or history, …
Arab Existentialism: An Invisible Chapter in the Intellectual History of Decolonization
IN MAY 1944, WHEN THE EGYPTIAN philosopher Abd al-Rahman Badawi defended his dissertation on existential time, Taha Husayn, the doyen of modern Arab letters, declared it the birth of modern Arab philosophy. The defense was a national event, and the widely distributed Egyptian daily al-Ahram immediately shared the news with its readers.1 Six years later, Badawi announced that he had devised a new philosophy for “our generation.” He called it exist…
Homeward Bound: Ḥusayn Muruwwah’s Integrative Quest for Authenticity
Ḥusayn Muruwwah was one of the most influential Arab intellectuals of the second half of the twentieth century. In the 1950s and 1960s he was critical in reinventing literary criticism and was at the vanguard of the postcolonial intelligentsia and its search for a new Arab culture. Before that he was cleric at Najaf, then a follower of Arab Liberalism, then a Marxist and, eventually a Communist. In the process of this intellectual metamorphosis M…
Marwa Elshakry. Reading Darwin in Arabic, 1860–1950
Nineteenth-century Europe gave to the world a contagious habit of mind that philosopher Maurice Mandelbaum defined as “historicism”: “the supposition that an adequate understanding of human reality can be gained only through considering it in terms of the place which it secured for itself, and the role which it played within a historical process of development” (History, Man, and Reason: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Thought [1971], p. 41). Among…
Trauma and Other Historians
If one practical way to define trauma is to consider it as a chronic inability to access and process catastrophic events, that is, as a systematic and haunting blockage of memory formation and reclamation of past experiences, then historians have an inherent stake in the concept. This basic observation is not new, of course, but until now only historians of the Holocaust have evinced serious and consistent interest in the vast literature on Traum…
The Messy Career of Historicism
How does the European historiographical apparatus, or historicism, translate to a non-European context such as that of India? Drawing on Dipesh Chakrabarty's work The Calling of History, this essay suggests that instead of providing a rigid definition of “non-European” historicism, we should attempt to salvage its Indian and non-European specificity. The dense correspondence that Chakrabarty uncovered allows us to examine the interpersonal and no…
Haunted: On the New Arabic Translation of Sartre's Anti-Semite and Jew
Two years ago, without any apparent explanation, a little-known Egyptian scholar translated Jean-Paul Sartre's Anti-Semite and Jew (originally published as Réflexions sur la Question Juive , 1946) into Arabic. Widely acknowledged as an experimental and highly influential theory of anti-Semitism in the 1960s, Sartre's text had already had a profound, yet indirect, influence on an entire class of left-wing Arab intellectuals who used it in order to…
The Slow Revolution: May 1968 in the Arab World
Revolutionary Justice: Special Courts and the Formation of Republican Egypt
One should not dismiss show trials, special tribunals, revolutionary courts, or people's courts as meaningless spectacles of state propaganda with little historical, political, and judicial value. This is the main message of Yoram Meital's exciting new book and it is especially valid in Egypt, where the political and judicial realities of the post-2011 revolution echo those of the early 1950s, with a similar drive toward juridical exceptionalism.…
Why Decolonization
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Palestine Comes to Paris: The Global Sixties and the Making of a Universal Cause
In the early 1960s, Israeli diplomats based in Paris noted that student life there had become political in new ways that threatened to undermine Israel’s image and standing in the public mind. In an effort to understand the growing international student body and its nine thousand well-integrated Arab students, the embassy asked Israeli students to spy on their colleagues and submit detailed reports about their political associations, thoughts, op…
Revolution and Disenchantment: Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation, written by Fadi A. Bardawil
Revolutionary Decolonization and the Formation of the Sacred: The Case of Egypt
Egypt's successful struggle over ownership of the Suez Canal under President Gamal ʿAbd al-Nasser in 1956 is usually seen as pivotal in the history of decolonization. Scholars have written about how the Suez War brought many of the classical themes of decolonization into focus, such as sovereignty over natural resources, the hegemony of the new Cold War order, the rise of popular anti-colonial nationalism and the international politics of develop…
Melancholy Acts: Defeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World, written by Nouri Gana
Genocidal Mirroring in Israel/Palestine
Rather than marking the onset of a new type of violence, rooted in the fantasy of the disappearance of the “other,” the 7 October war signifies the peak of a once-marginalized pattern of genocidal
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