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Aaron Jakes

 

Aaron Jakes is a doctoral candidate in the departments of History and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. He lives in Cairo, where he is conducting research for his doctoral dissertation, entitled “The Scales of Public Utility: Agrarian Transformation and Colonial Rule in Egypt, 1882-1922.” He currently holds research fellowships from Fulbright-Hays and the Social Science Research Council. His recent publications include a piece on the political marginalization of the Egyptian countryside and another on the contemporary resonance of the Dinshawai Incident.

ARTICLES BY Aaron Jakes

  • The Severed Branches of Local Government

    The Severed Branches of Local Government

    Sometime in the middle of last March, while I was still living in Cairo, I was working at my desk when I heard a noisy argument outside my window. The street in Zamalek where I lived was home to about a dozen little shops, along with a small café and a cafeteria, and I had long since learned to ..

  • The Myth of Egypt's Liberal Constitution

    The Myth of Egypt's Liberal Constitution

    In the years leading up to January 2011, Egypt’s past often appeared as an admonishment to the present. While their invocations of history assumed many forms, critics of the Mubarak regime became particularly enthralled with the so-called “liberal era” that followed the revolution of 1919. Secul..

  • Two Hands Clapping: the Double Logic of Counter-Revolution

    Two Hands Clapping: the Double Logic of Counter-Revolution

    On 23 January 2011, President Hosni Mubarak strolled to the podium of Egypt’s ornate police academy auditorium to deliver his annual Police Day address. Just five days later, after a great wave of popular protests had all but shattered the very security forces he had come to celebrate, Mubarak w..