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DR Reem Abou-El-Fadl's Outputs (21)

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.

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.

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.

The Geopolitics of Revolution: Assessing the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions in the International Context (2015)
Book Chapter
Mullin, C. (2015). The Geopolitics of Revolution: Assessing the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions in the International Context. In R. Abou-El-Fadl (Ed.), Revolutionary Egypt: Connecting Domestic and International Struggles. Taylor and Francis

This chapter examines an aspect often overlooked in comparative analyses of the Egyptian and Tunisian uprisings: features of the shared geopolitical context in which both uprisings took place, and the dynamic relationship between this and the types o... Read More about The Geopolitics of Revolution: Assessing the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions in the International Context.

Neutralism Made Positive: Egyptian Anticolonialism on the Road to Bandung (2014)
Journal Article
Abou-El-Fadl, R. (2015). Neutralism Made Positive: Egyptian Anticolonialism on the Road to Bandung. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 42(2), 219-240. https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2013.878526

Many assessments of the trajectory of positive neutralism in Egypt have presented it as a foreign policy implemented in response to the Cold War context, and ineffective in the shadow of superpower rivalries. This contribution contends instead that p... Read More about Neutralism Made Positive: Egyptian Anticolonialism on the Road to Bandung.

Egypt (2014)
Book Chapter
Abou-El-Fadl, R. (2014). Egypt. In E. E.-D. Shahin (Ed.), Oxford Encyclopaedia of Islam and Politics. Oxford University Press

The Road to Jerusalem through Tahrir Square: Anti-Zionism and Palestine in the 2011 Egyptian Revolution (2012)
Journal Article
Abou-El-Fadl, R. (2012). The Road to Jerusalem through Tahrir Square: Anti-Zionism and Palestine in the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Journal of Palestine Studies, 41(2), 6-26. https://doi.org/10.1525/jps.2012.XLI.2.6

This article addresses an aspect of Egypt's 2011 revolution almost entirely ignored in most Western media accounts: Israel and Palestine as prominent themes of protest. In reviewing Egyptian mobilization opposing normalization and in support of the P... Read More about The Road to Jerusalem through Tahrir Square: Anti-Zionism and Palestine in the 2011 Egyptian Revolution.