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Book SynopsisThis is a study of the relationship between public commemoration and national identity in Egypt over the course of the twentieth century. By analyzing nationalism through the prism of public commemoration, the work extends our understanding of the shaping of national identity and the evolution of national imagining in modern Egypt.
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Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I Sculpting the Nation: Mahmud Mukhtar and National Commemoration in Visual Art
1. Prologue: "The 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
