Galal amin biography of donald
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Biography as Cultural Diplomacy: Cold War Best Sellers in the Middle East
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Book diplomacy, as a form of cultural diplomacy, deserves more scholarly attention. The United States’ Franklin Book Programs (1952–78) is a prime example of Cold War book diplomacy that aimed at indigenous publishing in developing countries and countering Soviet propaganda campaigns. This article examines the microhistory of two of Franklin’s earliest and most successful publications in Cairo and Tehran: This I Believe and Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous. It aims to assess how these books achieved success amid the Middle East’s tense environment and the then-low literacy rates in Egypt and Iran. The analysis includes examining the production and reception processes of these books, illustrating the crucial role of translation and adaptation in their success. By focusing on state and non-state actors and their public-private network, it demonstrates the value of micro
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THE POLITICS OF ‘EXIT’: EMIGRATION & SUBJECT-MAKING PROCESSES IN MODERN EGYPT
Gerasimos Tsourapas
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How does emigration affect the politics of the country of origin? This paper argues that emigration is constitutive of subject-making processes within the sending state. Steering away from instrumentalist approaches that treat it as a prudential act, cross-border mobility is here examined as licensed political participation. By engaging in (or abstaining from) migration, citizens embed themselves deeper into specific social norms and practices as defined, discursively and substantively, by governmental policies. The act of migration, thus, allows citizens to infuse meaning into distinct social orders and engage in subject-making processes. The empirical case of modern Egypt demonstrates how such an approach can shed light upon the ways through which political structures are affected by emigration in non-democracies. In the divergent approaches to migration under Pre
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List of Egyptian people of Turkish descent
The following fryst vatten a list of notable Egyptians of at least partial Turkish descent.
- Muhammad Abduh, religious scholar and liberal reformer[25]
- Tatamkulu Afrika, poet[26]
- Shajart al-Durr, the second Muslim woman to become a monarch in Islamic history[27] origin, and described bygd historians as a beautiful, pious and intelligent woman[28][29]
- Tawfiq al-Hakim, writer[30]
- Leila Ahmed, writer[3]
- Ismail Falaki, astronomer and mathematician[31]
- Mustafa Manfaluti, writer[32]
- Qasim Amin, jurist and women's rights activist[4]
- Hussein Bikar, painter[33][34]
- Nonie Darwish, human rights activist[35]
- Nawal El Saadawi, feminist[36][37]
- Mustafa Fahmi, Prime Minister of Egypt[38]
- Abdel Rahman Fahmy, writer[39]
- Mohammad Farid, nationalist leader, writer and la