In October 1902, the waters of the Nile filled the reservoir of the first Aswan Dam, and Egypt's historic relationship with the river forever changed. Egyptian agriculture had long depended on the annual Nile flood, its rhythms demarcating the seasons and determining cycles of poverty and prospe..
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For the People of the River, Not Investors: Toward a “Declaration of Principles” Guaranteeing Farmers’ Rights to the Waters of the Nile
At the end of yet another round of negotiations between Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan in Washington late January on the crisis of the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Egypt, and the U..
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Turkiyeli Ermeniler’den Cagri: Bak Kardesim
Türkiyeli Ermeniler’den Çağrı: Bak Kardeşim
[Ermeni Soykırımı`nın 100. yıldönümü sebebiyle Nor Zartonk`un Türkiyeli Er..
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The Passions of the Trash Drive: A Group Exhibition
"The Passions of the Trash Drive: A Group Exhibition"
An exhibition by Malak Helmy
November - December 2013
Nile Sunset Annex, Cairo
For Malak Helmy’s recent exhibit..
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Sudan's Spreading Conflict II: War in Blue Nile
[The following report was issued by the International Crisis Group (ICG) on 26 June 2013.]
Sudan`s Spreading Conflict II: War in Bl..
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Look at Us With a Merciful Eye: Juvenile Offenders Awaiting Execution in Yemen
[The following report was issued by Human Rights Watch on 4 March 2013.]
Look at Us With a Merciful Eye: Juvenile Offenders Awaiting Execution in Yemen
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NEWTON Author Nergis Ertürk Receives MLA First Book Prize
We are very happy to report that Nergis Ertürk, whose book Grammatology and Literary Modernity in Turkey
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New Texts Out Now: Nile Green, Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915
Nile Green, Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
[Co-winner of the ..
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NEWTON Authors Rochelle Davis and Alan Mikhail Receive 2011 MESA Book Awards
We are very happy to report that two authors whose books were recently featured in New Texts Out Now (NEWTON) were recipients of prestigious awards at the 2011 Middle East Studies Association convention.
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On the Historical Study of South Asia and Sufism: An Interview with Nile Green
In the following conversation with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Ziad Abu-Rish, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Professor of History Nile Green discusses some of the issues arising from the study of “Muslims of South As..
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New Hope on the Nile
A new, post-Mubarak Egypt has given both Egyptians and other Arabs alike, hope that Egypt can once again reclaim its role as the focal point from which Arab culture and politics emanate. The opening up of th..