Open AccessMasculinity, Modernity, and National Identity in Interwar Egypt
Author(s) -
Wilson Chacko Jacob
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
al-raida
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2226-4841
pISSN - 0259-9953
DOI - 10.32380/alrj.v0i0.372
Subject(s) - turkish , honor , elite , ancient history , turkish republic , modernity , identity (music) , symbol (formal) , history , masculinity , gender studies , sociology , art , law , political science , philosophy , linguistics , aesthetics , politics , computer science , operating system
On October 29, 1932 a major celebration was organized at Ankara Palace in honor of Turkish Republic Day. The Turkish leader Mustafa Kemal had invited foreign dignitaries and the local elite to the evening festivities. Among the distinguished invitees was the Egyptian ambassador, Abd al-Malik Hamza Bey. He arrived dressed in his formal regalia topped off by the symbol of Egyptian (and up to 1925, Turkish) officialdom—the tarbush.2