Cairo Papers emerged in 1977, when a group of scholars in the School of Humanities and Social Science and the Social Research Center at AUC developed the idea of the journal. The aim was to produce a monograph series dedicated not only to demonstrate the relevance of Middle Eastern social science vis-à-vis Western theoretical orientations but also to share with dedicated Western scholars the fruits of indigenous research into issues and problems of differential development in the Middle East. The founding members of the Cairo Papers included Profs. Tim Sullivan, Ali Dessouki, Mark Kennedy, Nicholas Hopkins and Asaad Nadim.

Cairo Papers in Social Science is the American University in Cairo’s long-running English-language journal monograph, published by the American University in Cairo Press.

  • A key feature of Cairo Papers is interdisciplinarity, best reflected in the diversity of the research published—spanning the fields of political science, economics, sociology, and anthropology, as well as history, journalism, media studies, gender studies, law, arts, and psychology.
  • Located in Cairo, Egypt, Cairo Papers’ scope is the production of critical social science and humanities knowledge in and about the Middle East.
  • Cairo Papers is committed to promoting emerging scholars in the region mainly through publications and workshops.
  • One of Cairo Papers’ missions is to foster the international circulation of knowledge produced in the region by Arabic-speaking scholars and from outlets with limited access to international circuits of the print economy.
  • Cairo Papers is dedicated to publishing and debating knowledge produced through original field-based research that is innovative in its methodologies, creative in its questions, and rigorous in its use of conceptual paradigms.
  • Cairo Papers provides a critical venue for engaging with timely events emerging in the region from a critical academic and interdisciplinary perspective.

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Book Chapters from 2000

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Introduction (New Frontiers in the Social History of the Middle East), Enid Hill

A "Masquerade" Unmasked: An Aspect of John Frederick Lewis's Encounter with Egypt, Briony Llewellyn

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Jordan's Bedouins and the Military Basis of National Identity, Joseph Massad

Sir Archibald Edmonstone: A Scottish Traveller Assert's a Claim, A.J. Mills

Jehan D'Ivary, John David Ragan

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Reading the Colonial Archive, Martina Rieker

Lord Prudhoe and Major Felix Hieroglyphiseurs Decides, John Ruffle

The Brooke Hospital for Animals in Egypt, S. Searight

Introduction: Egyptian Encounters, Jason Thompson

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Islamic Law and Gender: Revisiting the Tradition, Judith E. Tucker

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Clientalstic Structures and Political Participation in Rural Turkey- A case study, Horst Unbehaun

An Orientalist Monument Reconsidered, John von B. Rodenbeck

Perceptions of Egypt in the Press: An Introduction to the Nineteeth-Century Newspaper Illustration, Nicholas Warner

Book Chapters from 1999

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Tanwir and Islamization: Rethinking the Struggle over Intellectual Inclusion in Egypt, Mona Abaza

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A Mirror of Political Culture in Contemporary Egypt: Divisions and Debates Among Women Activists, Nadje Sadig al-Ali

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Poverty and poverty alleviation strategies in Egypt, Ragui Assaad and Malak Rouchdy

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Um Saber, Shadia and my Self: The Power Relationship Between the Researched and the Researcher, Iman Bibars

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Inside/Out: The "Native" and the "Halfie" Unsettled, Heba El-Kholy and Nadje Al-Alfi

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Perceptions of the Social Role of the State in Egypt, Noha el-Mikawy

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Trajectories in the City: Reflections on Fieldwork in Um al-Dunya, Farha Ghannam

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Egyptian-Israeli Relations: Reflecting Regional Fluidity, Iman A. Hamdy

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Between Arab and French Agendas: Defining the Palestinian Diaspora and the Image of the Other, sari Hanafi

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Ethical Dilemmas of Research Among Sudanese in Egypt: Producing Knowledge About the Public and the Private, Anita Häusermann Fábos

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Introduction, Enid Hill

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Agriculture and Politics in Contemporary Egypt: The 1997 Tenancy Crisis, Reem Saad

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Biographical Notes (Between Field and Text), Seteney Shami and Linda Herrera

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Why is Anthopology so Hard in Egypt?, Hania Sholkamy

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On Medical Anthropology, Research, and Research Priorities: Notes from Cairo, Mohammed Tabishat

Book Chapters from 1998

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Egypt's Economic Reform and the Challenges of Globalization, Gouda Abdel-Khalek

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The New Regional Architecture in the Arab World, Mustapha Kamel Al-Sayyid

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Twenty Years of Desert Development in Egypt, Soraya Altorki and Donlad Cole

Major determinations of economic development in Egypt: 1977-1997, Galal Amin

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"On the Ground": Personal Reflections of an Egyptian Activist, Marie Assaad

Employment Policy under Economic Reform, Ibrahim Awad

Turkish Foreign Policy During the Gulf War of 1990-91, Mustafa Aydin

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The Egyptian Legal System over Twenty Years: Overview and Assesment, Ziad Bahaa-Eldin

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Urban Egypt: Towards a Post-Metropolization Era?, Eric Denis and Asef Bayat

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Private Capital Flow in the Development of the Arab Countries, Mohamed A. El-Erian and Shahpassand Sheybani

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From Crisis to Catastrophe: Epitaph for E.T. (Egyptian Theater), Mahmoud Ahmed El Lozy

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The Challenge of Human Development in Arab Countries, Nader Fergany

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Ideologies of Development, Hassan Hanafi

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Introduction (The MIddle East and Development in a Changing World), Donald Heisel

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Medating Education: The Emergence and Divergence of Islamic Private Schools in Egypt, Linda Herrera

Dynamics of change and continuity in Egypt today, Ali E. Hillal Dessouki

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The Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt: al-Makama al-Dusturiyya al-'Ulya, Enid Hill

Twenty yeaes of multi partyism ub Egypt: A Debate, Adel Hussein, Rifaat Al Said, and Mustapha Kamel Al Sayyid

A different world, a different Egypt: Observations on the geopolitical context of the papers, Mark C. Kennedy

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Introduction: Social Change in Egypt, 1977-1997, Mark C. Kennedy

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The Good, the Bad, and the News: Twenty Years of the Egyptian Media, James J. Napoli and Hussein Y. Amin

Introduction, Cynthia Nelson

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The Women's Question: New Directions of Inquiry and Action: Roundtable Discussion, Cynthia Nelson and Shahnaz Rouse

Losing the Key to Peace: American Policy and the Palestinians, Charles Perreault

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Reforms in the Basic Educational Compulsory System: A Reading of Primary School Arabic Curricula in Egypt, Malak S. Rouchdy

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Discussion: Concluding Remarks, Shahnaz Rouse

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The Nation in the Village: War and Migration in Narratives of Egyptian Peasants, Reem Saad

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Different Approaches to Violence against Women, Aida Seif El Dawla

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Family Planning to Reproduction Health, Women to Gender: Small Steps in a Circle, Hania Sholkamy

Israel and it's Pursuit of Peace in the Middle East, Ann McLennan Smith

State and Industrial Capitalists in Egypt, Samer Soliman

The birth of Cairo Papers in Social Science, Earl L. Sullivan

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Oil Challenges and Prospects, Paul Sullivan

Riding the Roller Coaster: Egypt's Regional Economic Relations Since Camp David, Paul Sullivan

Twenty Years of the Peace Process and its Impact on the Arab World, Andrew John Tabler

Redressing the Balance: Male Sexuality and Female Genital Mutilation in Egypt, Daia Wassef

Change in the Egyptian Economy 1977,1997, John R. Westley

Book Chapters from 1997

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Assessing Gender/Women's Studies: A Comparative Perspective -- Women's Studies Programs: The Middle East in Context, Nahla Abdo

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Discussion, Lila Abu Lughod

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Women's Studies in the Middle East: Some Problems and Prospects, Haleh Afshar

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Open Discussion (Arab Regional Women’s Studies Workshop), Haleh Afshar, Boutheina Cheriet, Shahnaz Rouse, Barbara Ibrahim, and Seteney Shamy

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Just a gaze: Female clientele of diet clinics in Cairo (an ethnomedical study), Iman Farid Basyouny

Reconceptualizing Research and Policy: Gender, Development, and Policy Formation, Boutheina Cheriet

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Class, Family, and Power in an Egyptian Village, Samer El Karanshawy

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Reconceptualizing Research and Policy: International Gender discourses: private comparative research agendas and methodologies- The Middle East and the United States, Sondra Hale

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The Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World: The Natural Outcome of the First Women's college in the Middle East, Mona Khalaf

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Women Studies Program in Palestine: Between Criticism and New Vision (Appendix: Case Studies from Palestine and Lebanon), Eileen Kuttab

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Keynote Address: Feminist studies : Relevance for scholarship and social equity in Arab societies, Soheir A. Morsy

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Introduction: Why a Gender/Women's Studies Program at the American University in Cairo?, Cynthia Nelson and Soraya Altorki

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Discussion, Shahnaz Rouse

Arab Regional Women’s Studies Workshop- Concluding Remarks, Nadia Wassef, Seham Abdul Salam, and Rania AlMalky

Book Chapters from 1996

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Reconstructing Development: Women at the Muqattam Zabbalin Settlement, Doaa Abdel Motaal

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Arab Views of Northern Europeans in Medieval History and Geography, Thabit Abdullah

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The Religious Other: Christian Images in Sufi Poetry, Omaima Abou-Bakr

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Seventy-Five Years of Economic Thought in Egypt, Galal A. Amin

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Byzantium and the Muslim World, David R. Blanks

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Cross-Cultural Encounters: Past and Present, David R. Blanks

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Nilopolitics: A hydrological regime, 1870-1990, Mohamed Hatem El-Atawy

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An Ambivalent Image: Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs, Nadia M. El-Cheik

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Historiography in Egypt in the Twentieth Century, Raouf Abbas Hamed

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An Assessment of grass roots participation in the development of Egypt, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Amani Kandil, Moheb Zaki, and Nagah Hassan

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Structural Adjustment, Stabilization Policies and the Poor in Egypt, Karima Korayem

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Renaissance England and the Turban, Nabil I. Matar

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Cervantes and Islam: Attitudes Towards Islam and Islamic Culture in Don Quixote, John Rodenbeck

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Medieval Muslim-European relations: Islamic Juristic Theory and Chancery Practice, E. M. Sartain

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Mirror of Chivalry: Salah al-Din in the Medieval European Imagination, John Victor Tolan

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Community Organization and Development among the Zabbalin of Muqattam, Elena Volpi

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Seventy Years of Sociology in Egypt, Ahmed Zayed

Books from 1995

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Workers, trade unions and the state in Egypt, 1984-1989, Omar El Shafei

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Social Policy in the Arab World, Jacqueline S. Ismael and Tareq Y. Ismael

Book Chapters from 1994

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State, Society and Violations of Human Rights in Egypt, Mustapha K. Al-Sayyid

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Human Rights and Cultural Specificity: Some Reflections, Rachad Antonius