Outputs (19)

Helmi Sharawy (1935–2023) (2023)
Journal Article
Abou-El-Fadl, R. Helmi Sharawy (1935–2023). Review of African political economy, 50(175), 90-95. https://doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2023.2240676

Building Egypt's Afro-Asian Hub: Infrastructures of Solidarity in 1950s Cairo (2022)
Book Chapter
Abou-El-Fadl, R. (2022). Building Egypt's Afro-Asian Hub: Infrastructures of Solidarity in 1950s Cairo. In C. Stolte, & S. L. Lewis (Eds.), The Lives of Cold War Afro-Asianism (167-190). Leiden University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9789400604346-010

This chapter highlights Egyptian contributions to the history of Afro-Asian solidarity, which remain understudied in scholarship on twentieth-century decolonisation, and on Gamal Abdel Nasser’s Egypt. It argues that Egyptian activists and... Read More about Building Egypt's Afro-Asian Hub: Infrastructures of Solidarity in 1950s Cairo.

The "Cold War" and Other Frames: On the Challenges of Writing Global History (2021)
Digital Artefact
Abou-El-Fadl, R. (2021). The "Cold War" and Other Frames: On the Challenges of Writing Global History. [Humanity Journal blog]

An Important Meeting, from "An Egyptian African Story" by Helmi Sharawy (2021)
Digital Artefact
(2021). An Important Meeting, from "An Egyptian African Story" by Helmi Sharawy. [Blog post]

Building Egypt's Afro-Asian Hub: Infrastructures of Solidarity and the 1957 Cairo Conference (2019)
Journal Article
Abou-El-Fadl, R. (2019). Building Egypt's Afro-Asian Hub: Infrastructures of Solidarity and the 1957 Cairo Conference. Journal of World History, 30(1-2), 157-192. https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2019.0016

Foreign Policy as Nation Making: Turkey and Egypt in the Cold War (2018)
Book
Abou-El-Fadl, R. (2018). Foreign Policy as Nation Making: Turkey and Egypt in the Cold War. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108566025

After the Second World War, Turkey and Egypt were among the most dynamic actors in the Middle East. Their 1950s foreign policies presented a puzzle, however: Turkey's Democrat Party pursued NATO membership and sponsored the pro-Western Baghdad Pact r... Read More about Foreign Policy as Nation Making: Turkey and Egypt in the Cold War.

Manifesto: Networks of Decolonization in Asia and Africa (2018)
Journal Article
Abou-El-Fadl, R., James, L., Leow, R., Lewis, S. L., McCann, G., & Stolte, C. (2018). Manifesto: Networks of Decolonization in Asia and Africa. Radical History Review, 131, 176-182. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-4355317

Nasserism (2016)
Book Chapter
Abou-El-Fadl, R. Nasserism. In A. Ghazal, & J. Hanssen (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199672530.013.18

This chapter revisits the political phenomenon of “Nasserism,” acknowledging that it has multiple connotations and yet enduring significance across the Arab world. It discusses Nasserism under Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918–1970) during... Read More about Nasserism.

Revolutionary Egypt: Connecting Domestic and International Struggles (2015)
Book
Abou-El-Fadl, R. (Ed.). (2015). Revolutionary Egypt: Connecting Domestic and International Struggles. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315717036

In 2011 the world watched as Egyptians rose up against a dictator. Observers marveled at this sudden rupture, and honed in on the heroes of Tahrir Square. Revolutionary Egypt analyzes this tumultuous period from multiple perspectives, bringing togeth... Read More about Revolutionary Egypt: Connecting Domestic and International Struggles.

Early pan-Arabism in Egypt's July revolution: the Free Officers' political formation and policy-making, 1946–54 (2015)
Journal Article
Abou-El-Fadl, R. (2015). Early pan-Arabism in Egypt's July revolution: the Free Officers' political formation and policy-making, 1946–54. Nations and Nationalism, 21(2), 289-308. https://doi.org/10.1111/nana.12122

Between 1952 and 1970, Gamal Abdel Nasser and Egypt's Free Officers Movement established the paradigmatic pan-Arabist revolution from above. Yet it has become something of a cliché to maintain that the Free Officers had no blueprint of action before... Read More about Early pan-Arabism in Egypt's July revolution: the Free Officers' political formation and policy-making, 1946–54.