Commemorating the Nation: Collective Memory, Public Commemoration, and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Egypt

by James P. Jankowski and Israel Gershoni

Commemorating the Nation is a study of the relationship between public commemoration and national identity in Egypt over the course of the twentieth century. Appropriating insights from recent theoretical discussions of collective memory and public commemoration, it examines the modes by which different Egyptian communities of memory; the state under successive regimes; rival political forces and movements; and elite and non-elite groups within...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0970819919
• ISBN13: 9780970819918
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Middle East Documentation Center
• Length: 337 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.0"