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Omar Cheta عمر شتا @omarcheta.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My friend Nady urgently needs a liver transplant. Please help him find a living donor.

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Mitra Sharafi @mitrasharafi.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Big news, everyone!! The ASLH has created a new dissertation prize for non-US legal history: the Global Dissertation Prize aslh.net/award/global... Eligible authors for this cycle must have received their doctoral degree in *2025.* Deadline: 1 June 2026. Please spread the word &/or submit your work!

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Omar Cheta عمر شتا @omarcheta.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Grateful to @nfyahaya.bsky.social for agreeing to read 'How Commerce Became Legal,' and excited to discuss it with her as part of #ASLH Making Connections: New Works in Legal History on January 21 via Zoom. RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

When Egypt's markets opened to private capital in the 1840s, a new infrastructure of commercial laws & institutions emerged. How Commerce Became Legal by @omarcheta.bsky.social considers how modern laws redefined the commercial sphere, shaping a mode of market governance www.sup.org/books/middle...

Book cover of How Commerce Became Legal:
Merchants and Market Governance in Nineteenth-Century Egypt
Omar by Youssef Cheta

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SOAS History @soashistory.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

The Histories of Capitalism and Race series @soasuni.bsky.social is back with a stellar line-up! Join us for exciting book discussions with @esmat.bsky.social, Catherine Hall, @omarcheta.bsky.social, Nicky Falkof, Tithi Bhattacharya, Françoise Verges, and Hafsa Kanjwal.

SOAS Walter Rodney Collective: Seminar Series, Fall 2025
Empire, Race, Capital: Readings Beyond the Atlantic
5-7pm, SOAS (unless otherwise specified_
Convenors: Sarah El-Kazaz, Hengameh Ziai, Lisa Tilley, and Samia Khatun
Thursday 9 October
Esmat Elhalaby, Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine and India at the Dawn of Decolonization (2025)
Thursday 16 October
Catherine Hall, Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism (2024)
Tuesday 28 October
Omar Cheta, How Commerce Became Legal: Merchants and Market Governance in Nineteenth-Century Egypt (2025)
Thursday 30 October (12:30pm)
Nicky Falkof, Worrier State: Risk, Anxiety and Moral Panic in South Africa
Thursday 13 November
Tithi Bhattacharya, Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal (2024)
Thursday 20 November
Françoise Verges, Making the World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment and Racial Capitalism (2024)
Thursday 4 December
Hafsa Kanjwak, Colonizing Kashmir: State-building Under Indian Occupation (2023)
Department of Politics and International Studies, Department of Development Studies, and School of History, Religions and Philosophies

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Omar Cheta عمر شتا @omarcheta.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

*How Commerce Became Legal* is finally out with @stanfordpress.bsky.social. Many thanks to all the friends and colleagues who helped along the way. www.sup.org/books/middle... (50% site-wide discount valid until September 8; 20% discount using code "CHETA20" after that)

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Omar Cheta عمر شتا @omarcheta.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

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Omar Cheta عمر شتا @omarcheta.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Forthcoming, September 2025. www.sup.org/books/middle...

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Omar Cheta عمر شتا @omarcheta.bsky.social · 08/03/2024

Beth Baron and Jeffrey Culang edited an important book. It features studies by some of the best scholars of Egyptian history, including Kathryn Schwartz, who left our world too soon. Her chapter on al-Waqa’i’ al-Misriyya is a testament to her brilliance. May her scholarship keep her memory alive.

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