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On Race, Sports, and Identity: Picking Up the Ball in Middle East Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2009

Shaun T. Lopez
Shaun T. Lopez*
Affiliation:
Department of History, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash.; e-mail: stlopez@u.washington.edu
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In their love for sports, Egyptians are no different from people in other parts of the world. They follow closely their favorite local teams in national-cup competitions, the careers of those stars who have taken their games to professional clubs in Europe, and, of course, the fortunes of their national teams in international competition. Success, such as Egypt's victory in the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations can draw millions into the streets of Cairo and Alexandria in celebration. Losses can result in full-scale political investigations launched by President Hosni Mubarak.

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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 41 , Issue 3 , August 2009 , pp. 359 - 361
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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NOTES

1 Al-Ahram, 19 June 1928, 8.

2 Al-Ahram Weekly, no. 884, 14–20 February 2008, http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/884/fr1.htm (accessed 20 December 2008).

3 “Why Did Egypt Fail at Olympics, Mubarak Asks,” Al Arabiya News Channel, 25 August 2008, http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/08/25/55453.html (accessed 20 December 2008).

4 Powell, Eve Troutt, A Different Shade of Colonialism: Egypt, Great Britain, and the Mastery of the Sudan (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2003), 219Google Scholar.