Review of Alexander Kitroeff, The Greeks and the Making of Modern Egypt; and Angelos Dalachanis, The Greek Exodus from Egypt: Diaspora Politics and Emigration, 1937–1962

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Published: Dec 29, 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/historein.28262
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Egypt Diaspora Emigration Greeks Ottoman Empire
Joseph John Viscomi
Birkbeck, University of London
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1147-8689
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Review of Alexander Kitroeff, The Greeks and the Making of Modern Egypt. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2019. 256 pp; Angelos Dalachanis, The Greek Exodus from Egypt: Diaspora Politics and Emigration, 1937–1962. New York: Berghahn, 2017. 288 pp.

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Joseph John Viscomi, Birkbeck, University of London

Joseph John Viscomi is a lecturer in European History in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck, University of London. He is a historian and anthropologist specialised in temporality, migration, and political processes in the Mediterranean region. He is currently completing a manuscript on the departure of Italians from Egypt and has recently published the open-access edited volume Locating the Mediterranean: Connections and Separations across Space and Time (Helsinki University Press, 2022). His research has appeared in History & Anthropology, The Journal of Modern History, Modern Italy, and elsewhere.

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