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MU'TAQAL Machine: Power, Gender and Identity in Egypt's Political Prisons, 1948-1981

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This thesis charts the history and evolution of a mass-incarcerating regime of detention, disappearance and torture in Egypt between 1948 and 1981. In seeking to explain Egypt’s carceral present, it traces, for the first time, the history of the Egyptian Mu‘taqal [political prison], from its emergence as a powerful instrument of government in the aftermath of the Second World War, through to its entrenchment as a mainstay of post-colonial governance by the newly independent state and by su...

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
History Faculty
Sub department:
History Faculty
Oxford college:
Merton College
Role:
Author

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
History Faculty
Sub department:
History Faculty
Oxford college:
Worcester College
Role:
Supervisor
Division:
HUMS
Department:
History Faculty
Sub department:
History Faculty
Role:
Supervisor
Type of award:
DPhil
Level of award:
Doctoral
Awarding institution:
University of Oxford

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