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How Commerce Became Legal: Merchants and Market Governance in Nineteenth-Century Egypt
Omar Cheta
Omar Cheta, assistant professor of history, has written How Commerce Became Legal: Merchants and Market Governance in Nineteenth-Century Egypt (Stanford University Press, 2025). The book explores Egypt’s adoption of a new infrastructure of commercial laws and institutions following the country’s opening to private capital in the 1840s.
September 16, 2025
See related: Economic Policy, Labor, Middle East & North Africa, Trade
All Judges Are Political - Except When They Are Not: Acceptable Hypocrisies and the Rule of Law
Keith J. Bybee
December 31, 2010