Desert Borderland: The Making Of Modern Egypt And Libya

Introduction : rethinking territorial Egypt -- Legal exceptionalism in Egypt's borderlands -- Accommodating Egyptian sovereignty in Siwa -- Abbas Hilmi II and the anatomy of a Siwan murder -- Cultivating territorial sovereignty in the western desert -- The limits of Ottoman sovereignty in the eastern Sahara -- The emergence of Egypt's western border conflict -- Conclusion : unsettling the Egyptian-Libyan border

• | Author: Matthew H. Ellis
• | Publisher: Stanford University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 20, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 280 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/History
• | ISBN-10: 1503605000
• | ISBN-13: 9781503605008