Through the Egyptian remake of an Italian television series, the article explores the shared – and often overlooked – imaginaries of crime and its investigation that make such work possible across the Mediterranean and, in ...

In early 2006, Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court found a statutory provision in force at the time of the decision to be in violation of the constitutional provision declaring the principles of Islamic law the chief ...

Documents like the one on Human Fraternity have become a prominent feature of both intra- and inter-religious dialogue with Muslim leaders and religious figures since the early 2000s. This opening lecture intends to draw the ...

‘The Great Divide in Legal Discourse’ serves as the opening chapter in an edited volume dedicated to the global rise of a new legal paradigm in the 19th century, i.e. legal positivism.  In it, Baudouin ...

Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm’s Yawmiyyāt Nāʾib fī ʾl-Aryāf (1937) has become one of the classics of modern Egyptian literature, and one of the prime examples of cinematic adaptations of literary works (Shafik 2016: 133-134).  The 1969 film directed by ...

In early 2006, Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court found a statutory provision in force at the time of the decision to be in violation of the constitutional provision declaring the principles of Islamic law the chief ...

‘The Great Divide in Legal Discourse’ serves as the opening chapter in an edited volume dedicated to the global rise of a new legal paradigm in the 19th century, i.e. legal positivism.  In it, Baudouin ...

Through the Egyptian remake of an Italian television series, the article explores the shared – and often overlooked – imaginaries of crime and its investigation that make such work possible across the Mediterranean and, in ...

Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm’s Yawmiyyāt Nāʾib fī ʾl-Aryāf (1937) has become one of the classics of modern Egyptian literature, and one of the prime examples of cinematic adaptations of literary works (Shafik 2016: 133-134).  The 1969 film directed by ...

The paper considers crime drama as a prime site for the appreciation of how law and its enforcement agencies are represented on Egyptian television, in particular in the immensely popular serials aired during the ‘Ramadan ...

State law as the main transformative device to build a ‘modern’ Egypt has encountered tremendous resistance, yet legal scholars seem utterly uninterested in the matter while historians struggle to account for the  reasons  of  the  subjects’ resistance  by  using  archival  materials  often  produced  by  state  officials ...

The counter-hegemonic Theory from the South (2012), which inspires this collection, invites scholars to turn around the leading epistemic approach that wants theories to be produced in the North, and then circulate in or be ...

Egyptian Ramadan TV series have explored the relationship between law and television in a number of iterations over the past few years. In 2017, the most watched production (115 million views on YouTube), Kalabsh, went one ...

Just five years after its coming into force, the 2014 Constitution of Egypt has been amended to accommodate changing power relations in the country. Arguably, citizens had little appetite for yet another round of amendments ...

This article investigates how ratification and implementation of international treaties are regulated in GCC Constitutions and how these regulations currently operate. First, it considers the models of internal/international law relations that Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Constitutions espouse. ...

Documents like the one on Human Fraternity have become a prominent feature of both intra- and inter-religious dialogue with Muslim leaders and religious figures since the early 2000s. This opening lecture intends to draw the ...

‘Citizenship’ (muwāṭana) has come to take centre stage in discussions over the status of religious minorities in Muslim-majority contexts, and even interreligious dialogue. This article explores how the concept has been framed by discussions about ...

The article seeks an answer to one of the most puzzling aspects of the century-long, engaged debate on 'citizenship' (muwäṭana) in Egypt: its scope. How did 'citizenship' come to be confined to issues of religious ...