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Sacred Places Tell Tales is the previously untold history of Egyptian Jewry and the ways in which Cairös synagogues historically functioned as active institutions in the social lives of these Jews. Historian Yoram Meital interprets Cairös synagogues as exquisite storytellers. The synagogues still stand in Cairo, and they shed new light on the social, cultural, and political processes that Egyptian society and the Jews underwent from 1875 to th...

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Revolutionary Justice narrates the power struggle between the Free Officers and their adversaries in the aftermath of Egypt's July Revolution of 1952 by studying trials held at the Revolution's Court and the People's Court. Meital shows that the rhetoric generated by Egypt's special courts played a crucial role in the denouement of political struggles, the creation of new historical narratives, and the shaping of both the regime and the opposi...