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Naguib Mahfouz (2011)
Other
Ouyang, W.-C. (2011). Naguib Mahfouz. London

The Priesthood of Nationalism in Egypt: Duty, Authority, Autonomy (2011)
Thesis
Geer, B. The Priesthood of Nationalism in Egypt: Duty, Authority, Autonomy. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis considers the effects of nationalism on the autonomy of intellectuals in Egypt. I argue that nationalism limits intellectuals’ ability to challenge social hierarchies, political authority and economic inequality, and that it has been more... Read More about The Priesthood of Nationalism in Egypt: Duty, Authority, Autonomy.

Lost in Nostalgia: Modernity's Repressed Other (2011)
Book Chapter
Ouyang, W.-C. (2011). Lost in Nostalgia: Modernity's Repressed Other. In J. Parker, & T. Mathews (Eds.), Translation, Trauma, Tradition: The Classic and the Modern (191-210). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aosobl/9780199554591.003.0013

This chapter explores the conceptual category constructed around the figure of the cultural other in narratives of modernity, and looks at the ways in which its presence and absence are entangled in the politics of cultural construction, or reconstru... Read More about Lost in Nostalgia: Modernity's Repressed Other.