🐻 Cornell Near Eastern Studies unofficial reading list 2026
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| Senior level | |
|---|---|
| Contesting Identities in Modern Egypt NES 4605/6605 (fa26) |
• Sacred Language, Ordinary People: Dilemmas of Culture & Politics in Egypt by Niloofar Haeri • Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern Nation through Popular Culture by Ziad Fahmy • Karnak Café by Naguib Mahfouz • A Border Passage: From Cairo to America – A Woman’s Journey by Leila Ahmed • Industrial Sexuality: Gender, Urbanization & Social Transformation in Egypt by Hanan Hammad • An Incurable Past: Nasser’s Egypt Then and Now by Mériam N. Belli • Egypt in the Future Tense: Hope, Frustration, and Ambivalence before & after 2011 by Samuli Schielke • Identifying with Nationality: Europeans, Ottomans & Egyptians in Alexandria by Will Hanley • Nile Nightshade: An Egyptian Culinary History of the Tomato by Anny Gaul |