In this presentation, I employ urban violence to examine how men constructed, performed, and struggled for their masculine identity. I argue that gender identity, performing masculinity, and the construction of manhood were important sites of the adaptation to industrial urban life in crucial years of interwar Egypt. On the backdrop of rapid urbanization and industrialization, […]

The Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) will be showing the classic 1966 film, "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming." Directed by Norman Jewison and starring Car Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Jonathan Winters, and Alan Arkin, the film is a hilarious spoof on the U.S.-Soviet confrontation. It stands as a […]

U.S. Ambassador Dennis Ross serves as Counselor, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and Ghaith al-Omari is Executive Director, American Task Force on Palestine. The event is free and open to the public. Ambassador Ross, the Washington Institute's Ziegler Distinguished fellow and counselor from 2001-2009, returned as its Counselor in December 2011 after serving […]

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