New Article Submission

Thank you for your interest in Jadaliyya. We welcome all submissions. The most significant requirement is for Jadaliyya submissions to be analytically compelling and offer a perspective or argument that has not been covered at length either on Jadaliyya or elsewhere. Because of the volume of submissions, well-written pieces are prioritized. Length is flexible, 1000 to 2500 words is the average range. However, we will accept longer pieces. Once submitted, several members of the editorial committee will review your piece and one of them will inform you of the decision.
Author Details
Article Details
Select Countries
Select Keywords
Select Topics
Only RTF, Word, and Pages documents accepted.

Recommended image size: 762x800 px

Location of each image should be indicated in the text of the article via a square bracket caption that includes: (1) a description of the image; (2) the photographer/designer and source of the image. Please note we only use images you as the author have the right to use, which usually means those of your own creation or those published under Creative Commons. Alternatively, you need specific permission from the copyright holder.
Please read the Release Form and provide an electronic signature [your full name] below to confirm that you accept its terms
Required
Hyperlink words in your article if they refer to links on the internet. We encourage more, rather than less, links (try to avoid footnotes—embed them as hyperlinks if possible)

Article added successfully.

Pages Menu BETA

Authors

Ahmad Shokr

Ahmad Shokr is Associate Professor of History at Swarthmore College. His teaching and research interests include the history of capitalism, colonialism, and decolonization. He is the author of Harvests of Liberation: Cotton, Capitalism, and the End of Empire in Egypt. His writings on historical and contemporary issues have appeared in Arab Studies Journal, Critical Historical Studies, Middle East Report, Jadaliyya, and Economic and Political Weekly. He is also a contributor to several volumes, including The Journey to Tahrir: Revolution, Protest, and Social Change in Egypt (2012); Dispatches from the Arab Spring: Understanding the New Middle East (2013); The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History (2016--); Global Middle East: Into the Twenty-First Century (2021); and A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa (2021).

 

ARTICLES BY Ahmad Shokr

  • Ahmad Shokr, Harvests of Liberation: Cotton, Capitalism, and the End of Empire in Egypt (New Texts Out Now

    Ahmad Shokr, Harvests of Liberation: Cotton, Capitalism, and the End of Empire in Egypt (New Texts Out Now

    This book comes out of two long-standing concerns of mine. On the one hand, I have been interested in the protracted process of global decolonization, especially in the Middle East, and the ways in which it succeeded or not.

  • Back to the Table, Egypt and the IMF

    Back to the Table, Egypt and the IMF

    Negotiations between the Egyptian government and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have resumed. On Wednesday, the IMF’s managing director, Christine Lagarde, met President Mohamed Morsy and Prime Minister Hesham Qandil in Cairo to discuss a possible 4.8 billion dollar budget support loan, w..

  • And The Winner Is...

    And The Winner Is...

    Many observers have declared that last week marked the death of Egypt’s democratic transition. First, there was the dissolution of an elected Parliament, ordered by a court and enforced by the army. Then, an arbitrary military decree gave the ruling generals control over the new constitution..

  • This is Not 1954

    This is Not 1954

     

    Over the past few days, the demons of history have weighed down on public discussions about the country’s state of affairs and the looming conflicts over the constitution and the presidential elections. The recent quarrel between the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces and the Musli..

  • Was 11 February a Failure?

    Was 11 February a Failure?

    Anyone who read Egypt’s state-run newspapers on Sunday morning would have come away with the unambiguous message that Egyptians responded to calls for a national strike over the weekend with their best asset: industriousness.  “And the strike fails,”  read the headline of Al-A..