How Notions of Security and Sovereignty on the Suez Canal Serve a Privileged Minority

The New Suez Canal project manifests broader patterns in Egyptian politics, in which nationalist discourses of sovereignty and security function to enrich and protect a privileged minority.

by Gabriel Young

Cristiano Ronaldo is known for many things – his incisive style of football, the sleek and cosmopolitan brand of Real Madrid, the masculine ideal that he performs – but Egyptian metallurgy is not one of them. Nevertheless, the steel manufacturer Egyptian Steel recently chose to star him in a series of extravagant commercials celebrating …