Lucie Ryzova: 2 books

Book cover of The Age of the Efendiyya

The Age of the Efendiyya

Passages to Modernity in National-Colonial Egypt

by Lucie Ryzova
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017

In colonial-era Egypt, a new social category of "modern men" emerged, the efendiyya. Working as bureaucrats, teachers, journalists, free professionals, and public intellectuals, the efendiyya represented the new middle class elite. They were the experts who drafted and carried out the state's modernisation...
Book cover of L'effendiyya ou la modernité contestée
by Lucie Ryzova
Language: French
Release Date: April 19, 2013

Dans l'Egypte de l'entre-deux guerres émerge une nouvelle catégorie sociale : l’effendiyya. Les jeunes hommes qui la constituent - les effendîs - affichent les signes d'une modernité incontestable : diplômés, habillés à l'occidentale, portant le tarbush, ils sont férus de cinéma et grands...
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