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.
Book Chapters from 2000
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
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
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
Islamic Law and Gender: Revisiting the Tradition, Judith E. Tucker
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
Tanwir and Islamization: Rethinking the Struggle over Intellectual Inclusion in Egypt, Mona Abaza
A Mirror of Political Culture in Contemporary Egypt: Divisions and Debates Among Women Activists, Nadje Sadig al-Ali
Poverty and poverty alleviation strategies in Egypt, Ragui Assaad and Malak Rouchdy
Um Saber, Shadia and my Self: The Power Relationship Between the Researched and the Researcher, Iman Bibars
Inside/Out: The "Native" and the "Halfie" Unsettled, Heba El-Kholy and Nadje Al-Alfi
Perceptions of the Social Role of the State in Egypt, Noha el-Mikawy
Trajectories in the City: Reflections on Fieldwork in Um al-Dunya, Farha Ghannam
Egyptian-Israeli Relations: Reflecting Regional Fluidity, Iman A. Hamdy
Between Arab and French Agendas: Defining the Palestinian Diaspora and the Image of the Other, sari Hanafi
Ethical Dilemmas of Research Among Sudanese in Egypt: Producing Knowledge About the Public and the Private, Anita Häusermann Fábos
Introduction, Enid Hill
Agriculture and Politics in Contemporary Egypt: The 1997 Tenancy Crisis, Reem Saad
Biographical Notes (Between Field and Text), Seteney Shami and Linda Herrera
Why is Anthopology so Hard in Egypt?, Hania Sholkamy
On Medical Anthropology, Research, and Research Priorities: Notes from Cairo, Mohammed Tabishat
Book Chapters from 1998
Egypt's Economic Reform and the Challenges of Globalization, Gouda Abdel-Khalek
The New Regional Architecture in the Arab World, Mustapha Kamel Al-Sayyid
Twenty Years of Desert Development in Egypt, Soraya Altorki and Donlad Cole
Major determinations of economic development in Egypt: 1977-1997, Galal Amin
"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
The Egyptian Legal System over Twenty Years: Overview and Assesment, Ziad Bahaa-Eldin
Urban Egypt: Towards a Post-Metropolization Era?, Eric Denis and Asef Bayat
Private Capital Flow in the Development of the Arab Countries, Mohamed A. El-Erian and Shahpassand Sheybani
From Crisis to Catastrophe: Epitaph for E.T. (Egyptian Theater), Mahmoud Ahmed El Lozy
The Challenge of Human Development in Arab Countries, Nader Fergany
Ideologies of Development, Hassan Hanafi
Introduction (The MIddle East and Development in a Changing World), Donald Heisel
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
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
Introduction: Social Change in Egypt, 1977-1997, Mark C. Kennedy
The Good, the Bad, and the News: Twenty Years of the Egyptian Media, James J. Napoli and Hussein Y. Amin
Introduction, Cynthia Nelson
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
Reforms in the Basic Educational Compulsory System: A Reading of Primary School Arabic Curricula in Egypt, Malak S. Rouchdy
Discussion: Concluding Remarks, Shahnaz Rouse
The Nation in the Village: War and Migration in Narratives of Egyptian Peasants, Reem Saad
Different Approaches to Violence against Women, Aida Seif El Dawla
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
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
Discussion, Lila Abu Lughod
Women's Studies in the Middle East: Some Problems and Prospects, Haleh Afshar
Open Discussion (Arab Regional Women’s Studies Workshop), Haleh Afshar, Boutheina Cheriet, Shahnaz Rouse, Barbara Ibrahim, and Seteney Shamy
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
Class, Family, and Power in an Egyptian Village, Samer El Karanshawy
Women Studies Program in Palestine: Between Criticism and New Vision (Appendix: Case Studies from Palestine and Lebanon), Eileen Kuttab
Keynote Address: Feminist studies : Relevance for scholarship and social equity in Arab societies, Soheir A. Morsy
Introduction: Why a Gender/Women's Studies Program at the American University in Cairo?, Cynthia Nelson and Soraya Altorki
Discussion, Shahnaz Rouse
Arab Regional Women’s Studies Workshop- Concluding Remarks, Nadia Wassef, Seham Abdul Salam, and Rania AlMalky
Book Chapters from 1996
Reconstructing Development: Women at the Muqattam Zabbalin Settlement, Doaa Abdel Motaal
Arab Views of Northern Europeans in Medieval History and Geography, Thabit Abdullah
The Religious Other: Christian Images in Sufi Poetry, Omaima Abou-Bakr
Seventy-Five Years of Economic Thought in Egypt, Galal A. Amin
Byzantium and the Muslim World, David R. Blanks
Cross-Cultural Encounters: Past and Present, David R. Blanks
Nilopolitics: A hydrological regime, 1870-1990, Mohamed Hatem El-Atawy
An Ambivalent Image: Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs, Nadia M. El-Cheik
Historiography in Egypt in the Twentieth Century, Raouf Abbas Hamed
An Assessment of grass roots participation in the development of Egypt, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Amani Kandil, Moheb Zaki, and Nagah Hassan
Structural Adjustment, Stabilization Policies and the Poor in Egypt, Karima Korayem
Renaissance England and the Turban, Nabil I. Matar
Cervantes and Islam: Attitudes Towards Islam and Islamic Culture in Don Quixote, John Rodenbeck
Medieval Muslim-European relations: Islamic Juristic Theory and Chancery Practice, E. M. Sartain
Mirror of Chivalry: Salah al-Din in the Medieval European Imagination, John Victor Tolan
Community Organization and Development among the Zabbalin of Muqattam, Elena Volpi
Seventy Years of Sociology in Egypt, Ahmed Zayed
Books from 1995
Workers, trade unions and the state in Egypt, 1984-1989, Omar El Shafei
Social Policy in the Arab World, Jacqueline S. Ismael and Tareq Y. Ismael
Book Chapters from 1994
State, Society and Violations of Human Rights in Egypt, Mustapha K. Al-Sayyid
Human Rights and Cultural Specificity: Some Reflections, Rachad Antonius