The Long 1890s in Egypt ─ Colonial Quiescence, Subterranean Resistance

Egypt just before political eruption! Turns of the century in Africa's northeastern corner have been critical moments, ushering in overt popular activism in the hope of radical political redirection--as this volume's focus on Egypt's 19th-century fin-de-siecle demonstrates.

The end of the 19th century in Egypt witnessed crisscrossing and conflicting political currents as well as fluctuating economic, geopolitical, social conditions, demographic conditions and cultural processes. Like Egypt's 20th-century fin-de-siecle, much of this ferment was a prelude to the more visible and politically eruptive events of the next decades, when Egypt's popular resistance burst onto the international scene. But its subterranean cast was no less dynamic for that.

Marilyn Booth holds the Iraq Chair in Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Edinburgh. She has edited Harem Histories: Envisioning Places and Living Spaces (Duke UP, 2010), and a Journal of Women's History issue, Women's autobiography in the Middle East and South Asia (2013). She is Middle East/Europe editor of the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures.

Anthony Gorman is Senior Lecturer in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He has taught at universities in Australia, Egypt and Britain. Among his research interests are modern Egyptian historiography and the resident foreign presence in modern Egypt.