Margaret Kenna

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I am a retired social anthropologist. I taught at Swansea University for forty years, lecturing at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and covering a wide variety of topics. My fieldwork and research has mainly concerned the Cycladic island of Anafi and its migrants in Athens.
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Swansea University
Swansea SA2 8PP, Wales, UK

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Occupation and Famine

Serious Play: Education, Leisure and Sex

Making an (Extra) Ordinary Life: Practical Aspects of Organisation

Indeed Revolutionary': Historical Sketch

Gonda van Steen, Adoption, Memory and the Cold War: Kid pro quo? Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2019. Pp. 330, xx

Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 2021

Greeks and Egyptians, despite the occasional aberration, was on the whole positive and mutually b... more Greeks and Egyptians, despite the occasional aberration, was on the whole positive and mutually beneficial, particularly as the twentieth century wore on. K's discussion of the Greek response to the gradual decolonization of the Egyptian legal system and commercial world is illuminating. However, in grappling with the multifarious reasons for the Greek exodus from Egypt which started as a trickle in the 1930s and became a flood by the early 1960s, he has a hard act to follow in the form of Angelos Dalachanis' magisterial 2017 work on the subject. The reference to a 'forced departure' on the inside dust jacket of K's book is misleading. The Greeks of Egypt were never forced to depart, unlike British and French nationals and Egyptians of the Jewish faith. It was somewhat surprising to discover that K's narrative breaks off rather abruptly after the exodus of the 1960s. The number of Greeks in Egypt remained above five figures well into the following decade, although it has dropped precipitately since then. One expected at least a few words about the Greeks who remained behind, their demographic and cultural characteristics, their economic activity, and their ongoing stewardship of the communal institutions founded by their predecessors. Some suggestions as to why their number continues to dwindle, despite almost complete social and linguistic integration, would have rounded out the story. That said, the history of the Greeks of Egypt has not previously been recounted so thoroughly in English, and in such an accessible form. This book has filled a significant gap in the secondary literature on the subject of ethnic minorities in the modern Middle East and will remain an important resource for the foreseeable future. One hopes it will also inspire closer study of the demography, social history and legacy of the Greek Egyptians.

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