Al-Ahram Weekly Online   10 - 16 November 2005
Issue No. 768
Special 		 
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875
On the eve of the international symposium to be held in Cairo and Alexandria beginning 12 November, Al-Ahram Weekly concludes the Muhammad Ali series commemorating the bicentennial of the Pasha's ascendancy to power
Constructing Muhammad Ali
Kenneth M. Cuno analyses how Muhammad Ali became the "founder of modern Egypt"
Through the grapevine
Cengiz Kırlı discovers exactly what the common people of Istanbul thought of Egypt's pasha through surviving intelligence reports
The popular uses of Muhammad Ali
The fields of popular and world history continue to place Muhammad Ali within the Oriental Despotism paradigm. Peter Gran explains why the pasha is useful for such historiography

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