3. ‘Abbas Hilmi II and the Anatomy of a Siwan Murder

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Note on Transliteration xiii
5. Introduction. Rethinking Territorial Egypt 1
6. 1. Legal Exceptionalism in Egypt’s Borderlands 13
7. 2. Accommodating Egyptian Sovereignty in Siwa 40
8. 3. ‘Abbas Hilmi II and the Anatomy of a Siwan Murder 61
9. 4. Cultivating Territorial Sovereignty in the Western Desert 87
10. 5. The Limits of Ottoman Sovereignty in the Eastern Sahara 116
11. 6. The Emergence of Egypt’s Western Border Conflict 147
12. Conclusion. Unsettling the Egyptian-Libyan Border 175
13. Notes 189
14. Bibliography 235
15. Index 255