Global History, Local History: Egypt in Time and Space, Lecture, Pt. 1 of 2

Professor Roger Owen and Professor Robert Tignor, the two co-founders of AUCs Economic and Business History Research Center (EBHRC) held joint panel discussion addressing "Global History, Local History: Egypt in Time and Space." EBHRC is a documentation and research center whose mission is to form collections of primary documents that relate to the history of public policy and business enterprise in Egypt and the Middle East, and the region at large. Roger Owen is the A. J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History at Harvard University and the former director of the universitys Center for Middle Easter Studies. Previously, he taught at Oxford University, where he held the position of director of the St. Antonys College Middle East Centre several times. His research interests include the economic history of the Middle East, with a focus on Egypt, including the political and socioeconomic history of the region as a whole since 1880. In addition to writing several books such as Cotton and the Egyptian Economy and The Middle East in the World Economy: 1800 1914, Owen often writes for the English-language newspapers Al-Hayat and Al-Ahram weekly. Robert Tignor is the Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Emeritus at Princeton University. He previously taught at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria and the University of Nairobi in Kenya. His research focuses on African history since 1880 and modern world history since 1300. He has done extensive research on British colonialism, world history and the history of Egypt, Nigeria and Kenya in the twentieth century. His publications include Modernization and British Colonial Rule in Egypt, Private Enterprise and Economic Change in Egypt and Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the Modern World.