Please, Come In: Furniture and National Identity in Postcolonial Egypt (1952-1981)

1952年，一场军事政变推翻了君主制，宣布从英国占领下独立，并建立了埃及的共和国。随后的几年形成了一种新的国家认同，其大致轮廓至今仍在生活。这项研究将通过研究家具的私密和物质世界来研究纳赛尔和萨达特时代后殖民埃及身份的形成和实践。这项研究将首次从自下而上的方法来探讨这一主题，将普通埃及人--尤其是女性--在后殖民民族主义的历史叙事中的作用集中起来。这个跨学科的项目将家庭、物质文化和设计史结合在一起，质疑埃及家庭中的国家认同是如何通过日常实践生活的。这项研究的影响超越了学术界，因为它的研究结果将与埃及和该地区当代的身份叙述特别相关。

n 1952, a military coup d'état overthrew the monarchy, declared independence from British occupation, and established Egypt as a republic. The years that followed were formative to a new national identity, the broad outlines of which are still lived today. This research will investigate the formation and practice of postcolonial Egyptian identity during the Nasser and Sadat eras by studying the intimate and material world of domestic furniture. The research will be the first to engage with the topic from a bottom-up approach centralising the role of ordinary Egyptians -specially women- in the historic narrative of postcolonial nationalism. This interdisciplinary project draws together the home, material culture, and design history to question how national identity was lived through everyday practices inside Egyptian homes. The impact of this research extends beyond academia as its findings will be particularly relevant to contemporary narratives of identity in Egypt and the region.