Beth Baron is Distinguished Professor of History at the City College and Graduate Center, City University of New York. As a historian of the Middle East, she focuses on gender, medicine, and modern Egypt. She served as editor of the International Journal of Middle East Studies and as president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America. Her research has been funded by grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Carnegie Corporation, Fulbright-Hays, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Jeffrey Culang is an independent historian of modern Egyptian law. He earned his PhD in history from the Graduate Center, City University of New York and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin and the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin. He also served as Managing Editor of the International Journal of Middle East Studies. Currently, and separate from his work in history and Middle East studies, he is an editor at the Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University SIPA.

1. Introduction, Beth Baron and Jeffrey Culang

MEDICINE, ENVIRONMENT, AND DISEASE
2. Medicine and Public Health in the Nineteenth Century, Khaled Fahmy
3. Midwives and Childbirth during Colonial Rule, Beth Baron
4. The Re-Egyptianization of the Medical Profession, 1919-1939, Liat Kozma
5. Colonizing and Decolonizing Egyptian Medicine, Soha Bayoumi
6. The Body of the Nile: Environmental Disease in the Long Twentieth Century, Jennifer Derr

TECHNOLOGY, MOBILITY, AND LABOR
7. Coalonizing Egypt: Carbonization in the Long Nineteenth Century, On Barak
8. Of Machines and Men: Mechanization and Migrant Labor on the Suez Canal, 1859-64, Lucia Carminati
9. Rethinking the Greeks of Egypt: Individuals and Community, Anthony Gorman
10. Gendering the History of the Labor Movement, Hanan Hammad
11. Dams, Ditches, and Drains: Managing Egypt's Modern Hydroscape, Nancy Reynolds

LAW AND SOCIETY
12. Hostages of Credit: The Imprisonment of Debtors in the Khedival Period, Omar Cheta
13. Criminal Law in the Khedival Period, Emad Hilal
14. Marriage and Family between the Mid-Nineteenth and Early Twenty-First Centuries, Ken Cuno
15. Refashioning the Shari'a Courts in the Semi-Colonial Period, Hanan Kholoussy
16. From the Common Good to Public Interest, Jeffrey Culang

TEXTUAL, PERFORMATIVE, AND VISUAL CULTURE
17. Egypt's State Periodical as a Tool of Governance, 1828-39, Kathryn Schwartz
18. Rethinking Literacy during the Nahda: The Many Lives of Texts, Hoda Yousef
19. Photography, Selfhood, and Cultural Modernity, Lucie Ryzova
20. Taking Comedy Seriously: Theater in the 1920s, Carmen Gitre
21. Hollywood on the Nile: Cinema and Revolution, Joel Gordon

STATE, POLITICS, AND INTELLECTUALS
22. Encounters with Modernity: Egyptian Politics in the 19th Century, Jamie Whidden
23. Local Enlightenment in Colonial Egypt: Ahmad Lutfi al-Sayyid in Perspective, Israel Gershoni
24. State, Intellectuals, and the Past, Yoav Di-Capua
25. The Army, State, and Society, Zeinab Abul Magd
26. Archives of Our Discontent: Nationalism and Historiography after 2011, Pascale Ghazaleh