Negotiating Virginity: Narratives of Defloration from Late Nineteenth-Century Egypt

Kozma, Liat

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“…This is particularly the case with rape and sexual violence. But see work on Ottoman Egypt (Sonbol 1997;Kozma 2004) and Pakistan (Quraishi 2000;Zia 1994;Lau 2007). "Honor killings" as a state sanctioning of relatives' claim over female family members have received somewhat more attention.…”

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The Pitfalls of Protection: Gender, Violence, and Power in Afghanistan

Wimpelmann

2017

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The Pitfalls of Protection: Gender, Violence, and Power in Afghanistan

Wimpelmann

2017

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“…This paper highlights the multiple sources al‐Ahrām relies upon by reading the threads it displays. Deeply rooted in Carlo Ginzburg's lesson (1994; 1986; 1976), this methodological frame is also indebted to Khaled Fahmy () and Liat Kozma () . Both interrogated an allegedly uniform set of sources, such as the Egyptian police and court records of the late nineteenth century, to shed light on the police organization, the state apparatus, and the people's attitudes towards the two.…”

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“…Liat Kozma (2004). 13 Both interrogated an allegedly uniform set of sources, such as the Egyptian police and court records of the late nineteenth century, to shed light on the police organization, the state apparatus, and the people's attitudes towards the two.…”

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Building a national case in interwar Egypt: Raya and Sakina's crimes through the pages of al‐Ahrām (Fall 1920)

Chiti

2020

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In November 1920, the Alexandria police arrested two sisters, Raya and Sakina, along with their husbands and others, and charged them with the murder of seventeen women. At the end of a trial held in May 1921, the judges sentenced to death six members of the gang, yet it was Raya and Sakina who monopolized public attention as the first women sentenced to death in the Egyptian secular justice system. A century later, they are still alive in the Egyptian collective memory, which has turned them into a long‐lasting criminal myth and remembers them as former prostitutes, madams, and female murderers. Previous studies seem to see the myth as resulting from the supposedly exceptional character of the case. This paper is a first step toward exploring how this exceptionality was constructed and how it took on a national dimension after the announcement of Raya and Sakina's arrest. The focus is on al‐Ahrām, the main national daily newspaper at the time, which covered the issue systematically, providing information on the investigation while building the case in national terms. A micro‐historic approach to al‐Ahrām will enable a deconstruction of exceptionality through comparison with a precedent. An analysis incorporating both the precedent and Raya and Sakina's case will lead to a first hypothesis about the longevity of Raya and Sakina's case and the disappearance of the precedent from the Egyptian collective memory. This perspective offers insight into the connection between the press, public morality, and nation‐building in interwar Egypt, linking textual and extra‐textual realities and shedding light on the local aspects that make the nation. Indeed, the organization of al‐Ahrām in the provinces may be seen as a key factor in revealing what attracts national attention and what remains confined to a local dimension.

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“…3 (Nov., 1999b), 366–7; Ibid, “The Anatomy of Justice: Forensic Medicine and Criminal Law in Nineteenth‐Century Egypt,” Islamic Law and Society 6, no. 2 (1999a): 224–271; Liat Kozma, Policing Egyptian Women (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2011); Liat Kozma, “Negotiating Virginity: Narratives of defloration within late nineteenth‐century Egypt,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 24, no 1 (2006): 55–65.…”

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Approaching the history of an Egyptian biomedicine

Derr

2021

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This piece explores the history of medicine in Egypt, the roots of an Egyptian practice of biomedicine in particular, through its historiography. In the period after World War II, the term “biomedicine” came to describe a practice of medicine defined by the close relations among clinicians, biological laboratory research, and the pharmaceutical industry in Europe and the United States. The history of medicine in Egypt and other parts of the Middle East and North Africa has long possessed close links to that in regions of Europe. In Egypt too, biomedicine has deep historical roots shaped by the influence of the nineteenth‐century Ottoman‐Egyptian state, the experience of colonialism, and the anti‐colonial objectives of the post‐colonial Egyptian state in the second half of the twentieth century. These influences were particularly important in relation to the treatment of schistosomiasis, one of Egypt's top‐ranking health problems of the twentieth century. The history of schistosomiasis demonstrates the gaps in the historiography of medicine in modern Egypt as well as how we might begin to consider the emergence of biomedical knowledge and theory at sites in Global South.

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Negotiating Virginity: Narratives of Defloration from Late Nineteenth-Century Egypt

Cited by 7 publications

References 14 publications

The Pitfalls of Protection: Gender, Violence, and Power in Afghanistan

The Pitfalls of Protection: Gender, Violence, and Power in Afghanistan

Building a national case in interwar Egypt: Raya and Sakina's crimes through the pages of al‐Ahrām (Fall 1920)

Approaching the history of an Egyptian biomedicine

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