# My Egypt Archive - Hardcover

by **Alan Mikhail** (Author)

**A prominent historian provides an engaging on-the-ground account of the everyday authoritarianism that produced the Arab Spring in Egypt**

**"A visceral and perceptive study of life under autocracy."--_Publishers Weekly_**

An unmatched contemporary history of authoritarian politics and an unflinching examination of the politics of historical authority, _My Egypt Archive_ is at once a chronicle of Egypt in the 2000s and a historian's bildungsroman. As Alan Mikhail dutifully collected the paper scraps of the past, he witnessed how the everyday oppressions of a government institution led most Egyptians to want to remake their society in early 2011. In telling these stories of the archive, Mikhail centers the politics of access, interpersonal relationships, state power, and the emotion, anxiety, and inchoate nature of historical research.

_My Egypt Archive_ reveals the workings of an authoritarian regime from inside its institutions in the decade leading up to the Arab Spring and, in doing so, points the way to exciting new modes of historical inquiry that give voice to the visceral realities all historians experience.

### Author Biography

**Alan Mikhail** is the Chace Family Professor of History and chair of the Department of History at Yale University. He is the author of four previous books and editor of another.

**Number of Pages:** 184

**Dimensions:** 0.77 x 8.78 x 5.88 IN

**Publication Date:** January 24, 2023

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