The Egyptian Revolution of 1919

Robert Springborg is Professor (retd) of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, USA. Formerly he was Professor of Politics and Director of the London Middle East Institute of SOAS and Director of the American Research Center in Egypt. His publications include Political Economies of the Middle East and North Africa (2020), Mubarak’s Egypt (1989) amongst others, and he has worked as a consultant on Middle East governance and politics for USAID, the U.S. State Department, the UNDP, and various UK Government departments. H.A. Hellyer is Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), UK, and a scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC, USA. He is also Senior Scholar of the Azzawia Institute in South Africa, Professorial Fellow at Cambridge Muslim College, UK, and adjunct full Professor at the University of Technology's Centre for Advanced Studies on Islam, Science and Civilisation in Malaysia. He has worked for the UK Government and Foreign & Commonwealth Office and his analysis has been published by CNN, the BBC, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Mada Masr and the Guardian.

Introduction, H.A Hellyer, University of Cambridge, UK

1 Medical Doctors, Maternal Health, and the Revolution of 1919, Beth Baron, City University of New York, USA
2. Arabi and his Comrades: Workers on the Canal and the 1919 Revolution, Mohamed Elsayed, SOAS, University of London, UK
3. Muslim and Christian Egyptian Identities and the Narrative of the 1919 Revolution, Mark Bebawi, Rice University, USA
4. From Nationalism to Islamism – Revolution, the Wafd and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, Philip Marfleet
5. British Responses to the 1919 Revolution, James Whidden, Acadia University, Canada
6. Lord Allenby and the 1919 Revolution: An Ambivalent Colonizer, Zeinab Abolmagd, Oberlin College, USA
7. Crossing the Global Color Line: 1919 and Colonial Racism, Kyle Anderson,The State University of New York College at Old Westbury, USA
8. The Dynamics of the Egyptian Exile Body in Europe During Two Revolutions (1919 and 2011), Taqadum Al-Khatib,
9. The Great Theft of History: WWI and the Prelude to Revolution, Khaled Fahmy, University of Cambridge, UK

Conclusion, Robert D. Springborg, Simon Fraser University, Canada