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10
Dec

Women of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Women’s Social Power in the First 11 Dynasties

AUC New Cairo

This lecture challenges the traditional focus on elite male narratives in ancient Egyptian history by examining the evolving social power of women from the Early Dynastic Period to the First Intermediate Period (Dynasties 1–11). Using Michael Mann’s Social Power Domains as a theoretical framework, the study analyzes women’s biographical inscriptions—mainly from funerary monuments—to map changes...

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12
Oct

The Marketization of Economic Informality: Rooftops, Housing and Private Property in a Cairo Neighborhood

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AUC New Cairo

By Amr Adly, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science The talk explores market making under conditions of widespread economic informality, applying it to a segment of Cairo’s housing market. I draw on rich ethnographic work involving a group of small developers who had actively engaged in building extra housing units on rooftops of already existing buildings in a middle- class ne...