Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. 1 Introduction 1
5. PART 1 Egypt and Ethiopia: History and Remembering History
6. 2 The Closest Egyptian-Ethiopian Relationship: The Mamluk Sultanate 11
7. 3 Found in Translation: The Egyptian Impact on Ethiopian Christian Literature 29
8. 4 Politics of Memory: Ahmad ‘Urabi’s Account of the War in Ethiopia, 1876 41
9. PART 2 Egypt and Sudan: Unity and National Self-Determination
10. 5 Swimming Against the Nationalist Current: The Egyptian Communists and the Unity of the Nile Valley 65
11. 6 US Policy Toward the Unity of the Nile Valley, 1945–1952 91
12. PART 3 The Nile Valley and Collective Identities
13. 7 At the Banks of the Euphrates and Tigris: Egyptian Intellectuals in Iraq, 1919–1939 113
14. 8 River Blindness: Black and White Identity in Early Nasserist Cinema 137
15. 9 Umm Kulthum at the American University in Cairo: A Study in the Clash of Christianities 157
16. PART 4 Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan: Dissonance and Rapprochement
17. 10 Managing the Water of the Nile: Basis for Cooperation? 179
18. 11 Ethiopia and Sudan: Conflict and Cooperation in the Nile Valley 203
19. PART 5 Conclusion
20. 12 Narrating the Nile 225
21. Honoring Haggai Erlich 233
22. Publications by Haggai Erlich 239
23. Bibliography 245
24. The Contributors 261
25. Index 265
26. About the Book 275