Commemorating the Nation

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Part I Sculpting the Nation: Mahmud Mukhtar and National Commemoration in Visual Art 1. Prologue: First Egyptian Sculptor since the Age of the Pharaohs 2. Mahmud Mukhtar: an Egyptian Childhood, a Parisian Education 3. Nahdat Misr: Inspiration and Influences 4. Neo-{haraonism and the Fine Arts in Independent Egypt 5. Politics and Commemoration: the Construction of Nahdat Misr as a National Monument 6. The Heroic Moment: the Unveiling of Nahdat Misr 7. Commemoration and Partisan Politics: Mahmud Mukhtar's Statues of Sacd Zaghlul 8. Mahmud Mukhtar after Nahdat Misr, 1928 - 1934 9. Contested Memories: Mahmud Mukhtar and Nahdat Misr in an Era of Transistion, 1934-1952 10. Revolutionizing Mukhtar: The July 1952 Revolution and New Meanings for Mukhtar's Commemorative Works in the Egyptian Republic 11. Epilogue Part II Death and Memory: Commemorating the National Heroes Mustafa Kamil and Muhammad Farid 12. Prologue: Mustafa Kamil and Muhammad Farid in Contemporary Egyptian Memory 13. The Burial of a National Hero: the Civic Funeral of Mustafa Kamil, 1908 14. Martyrdom and Memory: the Death and Funeral of Muhammad Farid, 1919-1920 15. National Forgetting: Mustafa Kamil and Muhammad Farid in Eclipse, 1920-1937 16. Recovery of Memory: Rehabilitating Mustafa Kamil and Muhammad Farid, 1937-1952 17. Revolutionary Appropriation: Mustafa Kamil, Muhammad Farid and the Revolution of July 1952 18. Epilogue Part III Commemorating the Revolution in Egypt 19. Prologue: The July Revolution after Fifty Years 20. National Holidays as Sites of Memory 21. National Holiday Commemoration under the Egyptian Parliamentary Monarchy 22. Celebrating the Revolution of July 1952 23. Appropriation and Obliteration: Celebrating the Crossing of October 1973 24. Epilogue: July 23 and October 6, 2000 Conclusion Bibliography Index

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