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Omar Cheta عمر شتا
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Historian • Alexandria/Syracuse • https://www.sup.org/books/middle-east-studies/how-commerce-became-legal
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Omar Cheta عمر شتا @omarcheta.bsky.social · Sep 4
*How Commerce Became Legal* is finally out with @stanfordpress.bsky.social. Many thanks to all the friends and colleagues who helped along the way.

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(50% site-wide discount valid until September 8; 20% discount using code "CHETA20" after that)
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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 8d
When Egypt's markets opened to private capital in the 1840s, a new infrastructure of commercial laws & institutions emerged. How Commerce Became Legal by @omarcheta.bsky.social considers how modern laws redefined the commercial sphere, shaping a mode of market governance

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Book cover of How Commerce Became Legal: Merchants and Market Governance in Nineteenth-Century Egypt Omar by Youssef Cheta
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SOAS History and the SOAS History Blog @soashistory.bsky.social · 15d
The Histories of Capitalism and Race series
@soasuni.bsky.social is back with a stellar line-up! Join us for exciting book discussions with @esmat.bsky.social, Catherine Hall, @omarcheta.bsky.social, Nicky Falkof, Tithi Bhattacharya, Françoise Verges, and Hafsa Kanjwal.
SOAS Walter Rodney Collective: Seminar Series, Fall 2025 Empire, Race, Capital: Readings Beyond the Atlantic 5-7pm, SOAS (unless otherwise specified_ Convenors: Sarah El-Kazaz, Hengameh Ziai, Lisa Tilley, and Samia Khatun Thursday 9 October Esmat Elhalaby, Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine and India at the Dawn of Decolonization (2025) Thursday 16 October Catherine Hall, Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism (2024) Tuesday 28 October Omar Cheta, How Commerce Became Legal: Merchants and Market Governance in Nineteenth-Century Egypt (2025) Thursday 30 October (12:30pm) Nicky Falkof, Worrier State: Risk, Anxiety and Moral Panic in South Africa Thursday 13 November Tithi Bhattacharya, Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal (2024) Thursday 20 November Françoise Verges, Making the World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment and Racial Capitalism (2024) Thursday 4 December Hafsa Kanjwak, Colonizing Kashmir: State-building Under Indian Occupation (2023) Department of Politics and International Studies, Department of Development Studies, and School of History, Religions and Philosophies
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Omar Cheta عمر شتا @omarcheta.bsky.social · Sep 4
*How Commerce Became Legal* is finally out with @stanfordpress.bsky.social. Many thanks to all the friends and colleagues who helped along the way.

www.sup.org/books/middle...

(50% site-wide discount valid until September 8; 20% discount using code "CHETA20" after that)
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omarcheta.bsky.social
Omar Cheta عمر شتا @omarcheta.bsky.social · Sep 4
*How Commerce Became Legal* is finally out with @stanfordpress.bsky.social. Many thanks to all the friends and colleagues who helped along the way.

www.sup.org/books/middle...

(50% site-wide discount valid until September 8; 20% discount using code "CHETA20" after that)
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Omar Cheta عمر شتا @omarcheta.bsky.social · Apr 12
Thank you!
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Omar Cheta عمر شتا @omarcheta.bsky.social · Apr 12
Forthcoming, September 2025.

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Omar Cheta عمر شتا @omarcheta.bsky.social · Mar 13
My review of Aaron Jakes's outstanding and ambitious book, "Egypt's Occupation." doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...

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Aaron G. Jakes. Egypt’s Occupation: Colonial Economism and the Crises of Capitalism.
New historical scholarship usually aims to fill historiographical gaps and revise widely held assumptions about the past. Aaron G. Jakes’s Egypt’s Occupati
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Omar Cheta عمر شتا @omarcheta.bsky.social · Mar 8
Beth Baron and Jeffrey Culang edited an important book. It features studies by some of the best scholars of Egyptian history, including Kathryn Schwartz, who left our world too soon. Her chapter on al-Waqa’i’ al-Misriyya is a testament to her brilliance. May her scholarship keep her memory alive.
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