Omar Cheta عمر شتا
Historian • Alexandria/Syracuse • "How Commerce Became Legal" (Stanford UP, 2025)
- Reposted by Omar Cheta عمر شتاHistorians and legal scholars: please submit your articles for the Burbank Global Legal History prize! Any article published in 2025 is eligible. The deadline is June 1. I am chairing the committee this year so reach out with any questions! aslh.net/award/jane-b...
- 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...
- I'll be in conversation with @omarcheta.bsky.social on his wonderful new book 'How Commerce Became Legal' (Stanford UP) on January 21st over Zoom. RSVP to attend.
- Reposted by Omar Cheta عمر شتاWhen 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...
- Reposted by Omar Cheta عمر شتاThe 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.
- *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)
- Forthcoming, September 2025. www.sup.org/books/middle...
- My review of Aaron Jakes's outstanding and ambitious book, "Egypt's Occupation." doi.org/10.1093/ahr/... @aaronjakes.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social
- 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.
