Forgotten Saint-Simonian Travelers in Egypt: Suzanne Voilquin, Ismayl Urbain, and Jehan d'Ivray

by John David Ragan

The paradoxes of nineteenth-century colonialism in the Middle East revealed through the accounts of three working class European travelers to Egypt

This book tells the stories of two French women and a French African man, travelers connected to the Saint-Simonian utopian socialists, who came to work for the Egyptian government in the 1830s. They have been marginalized and excluded from the historical record, because they were women,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1649033850
• ISBN13: 9781649033857
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
• Length: 382 Pages