Sara Salem is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research interests include political sociology, postcolonial studies, Marxist theory, feminist theory, global histories of empire, and anticolonialism. Her articles have featured in journals including Middle East Critique, Interventions: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society, and Review of African Political Economy.

• Introduction. Trapped in history: revolution in Egypt; Part I. Anticolonialism and its Discontents: 1. Postcolonial and Marxist encounters; 2. Hegemony in Egypt: revisiting Gamal Abdel Nasser; Part II. Hegemony and its Afterlives: 3. Laying neoliberal foundations: Infitah and a new Egypt; 4. Finance capital and empty time; Conclusion. Haunted histories and decolonial futures.

'This important and elegant book contributes a significant reading of post-independence Egyptian political history in terms of the rise and fall of Nasserist hegemony. It stands out for its engagement with Gramsci and Fanon, and for its subtle excavation of the multifarious combinations of coercion and consent at work in the making and attrition of hegemony, and the hauntings that accompany hegemony's after-lives.' John Chalcraft, London School of Economics

Sara Salem is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research interests include political sociology, postcolonial studies, Marxist theory, feminist theory, global histories of empire, and anticolonialism. Her articles have featured in journals including Middle East Critique, Interventions: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society, and Review of African Political Economy.

• Introduction. Trapped in history: revolution in Egypt; Part I. Anticolonialism and its Discontents: 1. Postcolonial and Marxist encounters; 2. Hegemony in Egypt: revisiting Gamal Abdel Nasser; Part II. Hegemony and its Afterlives: 3. Laying neoliberal foundations: Infitah and a new Egypt; 4. Finance capital and empty time; Conclusion. Haunted histories and decolonial futures.

'This important and elegant book contributes a significant reading of post-independence Egyptian political history in terms of the rise and fall of Nasserist hegemony. It stands out for its engagement with Gramsci and Fanon, and for its subtle excavation of the multifarious combinations of coercion and consent at work in the making and attrition of hegemony, and the hauntings that accompany hegemony's after-lives.' John Chalcraft, London School of Economics

Sara Salem is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research interests include political sociology, postcolonial studies, Marxist theory, feminist theory, global histories of empire, and anticolonialism. Her articles have featured in journals including Middle East Critique, Interventions: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society, and Review of African Political Economy.

• Introduction. Trapped in history: revolution in Egypt; Part I. Anticolonialism and its Discontents: 1. Postcolonial and Marxist encounters; 2. Hegemony in Egypt: revisiting Gamal Abdel Nasser; Part II. Hegemony and its Afterlives: 3. Laying neoliberal foundations: Infitah and a new Egypt; 4. Finance capital and empty time; Conclusion. Haunted histories and decolonial futures.

'This important and elegant book contributes a significant reading of post-independence Egyptian political history in terms of the rise and fall of Nasserist hegemony. It stands out for its engagement with Gramsci and Fanon, and for its subtle excavation of the multifarious combinations of coercion and consent at work in the making and attrition of hegemony, and the hauntings that accompany hegemony's after-lives.' John Chalcraft, London School of Economics