An indigenous working class history of the port city of Alexandria, 1850-1919
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2025
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Melbourne Authors
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School of Historical and Philosophical Studies
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© 2025 Dina Hussein
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Beyond the dominant narrative of Alexandria as a cosmopolitan Europeanised city, this study shows how to use Orientalist photographs capturing ancient monuments to reconstruct the history of the local population. It borrows from microhistory to undertake an 'intensive historical investigation' of a small object (the photograph) and the place it captured (the vicinity of the Greco-Roman Pompey's Pillar). It digs into state archives, including census and police records, to put the history of indigenous working-class migrants (the aghrab) back into the photograph. It contributes to theoretical debates on urbicide by showing how policies of urban exclusion and spatial violence shaped the aghrabs' lived experience.
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Cosmopolitanism, Alexandria, Egypt, nineteenth century, modern, city, colonial, indigenous, working-class, urban, urbicide, spatial violence, exclusion, migrants, rural women, slavery, policing, bodies, monuments, Pillar, Greco-Roman