Karim Malak
Biographic Data
| ID | 6453487 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karim Malak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karim |
| FAMILY NAME | Malak |
| SIGNATURE | MALAK K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8686-8665 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Pre-Modern Genealogy of Siyāsa in Awqāf: Executive Prerogative or Limit
This article provides a genealogy of attempts by Mamluk and Ottoman rulers and governors to regulate, seize and liquidate awqāf from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century in Egypt. While studies on siyāsa sharʿiyya have shown how rulers could intervene in waqf regulation under claims of istibdāl , this article explores the relationship between siyāsa and awqāf . It elucidates a certain limit to rulers’ attempts to regulate awqāf by looking at …
Big Data Before the Age of Big Data: The 1917 Anglo-Egyptian “Dress Rehearsal” of the Nazi Census
The Herman Hollerith Tabulator, the predecessor to the computer, was essential to the 1890 US census. Reducing years of manual tabulation into weeks, the tabulator is normally celebrated as a European and governmental technology. Scholars such as Edwin Black, however, have shown the dark side of the tabulator and how it was essential to the Nazi Holocaust because of its ability to tabulate information on a new scale and generate new categories fo…
The High Tide of Colonialism
This article explores a seaborne genealogy of sovereignty and governmentality by drawing on the case of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Egypt. It argues that a particular form of totalizing sovereignty emerged through the Levant Crisis and its resolution in 1841 when the Mediterranean became mare clausum. Subsequently, it demonstrates how a rivaling seaborne genealogy of sovereignty and governmentality complicates the standard Foucauldian narra…
How far does neoliberalism go in Egypt? Gender, citizenship and the making of the ‘rural’ woman
This paper focuses on civil society in Egypt as a site in which the ‘Egyptian rural woman’ is made by looking at processes of microfinance which often ‘fail’ to realise their stated goals of ‘empowerment’, ‘poverty alleviation’ or ‘social mobility’. Using ethnographic material from a microfinance programme in the Egyptian governorate of al-Minya, such programmes are problematised beyond their stated goals. Instead, such initiatives put in place a…
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How far does neoliberalism go in Egypt? Gender, citizenship and the making of the ‘rural’ woman
This paper focuses on civil society in Egypt as a site in which the ‘Egyptian rural woman’ is made by looking at processes of microfinance which often ‘fail’ to realise their stated goals of ‘empowerment’, ‘poverty alleviation’ or ‘social mobility’. Using ethnographic material from a microfinance programme in the Egyptian governorate of al-Minya, such programmes are problematised beyond their stated goals. Instead, such initiatives put in place a…
The High Tide of Colonialism
This article explores a seaborne genealogy of sovereignty and governmentality by drawing on the case of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Egypt. It argues that a particular form of totalizing sovereignty emerged through the Levant Crisis and its resolution in 1841 when the Mediterranean became mare clausum. Subsequently, it demonstrates how a rivaling seaborne genealogy of sovereignty and governmentality complicates the standard Foucauldian narra…
Big Data Before the Age of Big Data: The 1917 Anglo-Egyptian “Dress Rehearsal” of the Nazi Census
The Herman Hollerith Tabulator, the predecessor to the computer, was essential to the 1890 US census. Reducing years of manual tabulation into weeks, the tabulator is normally celebrated as a European and governmental technology. Scholars such as Edwin Black, however, have shown the dark side of the tabulator and how it was essential to the Nazi Holocaust because of its ability to tabulate information on a new scale and generate new categories fo…
A Pre-Modern Genealogy of Siyāsa in Awqāf: Executive Prerogative or Limit
This article provides a genealogy of attempts by Mamluk and Ottoman rulers and governors to regulate, seize and liquidate awqāf from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century in Egypt. While studies on siyāsa sharʿiyya have shown how rulers could intervene in waqf regulation under claims of istibdāl , this article explores the relationship between siyāsa and awqāf . It elucidates a certain limit to rulers’ attempts to regulate awqāf by looking at …
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