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Relli Shechter
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Email: [email protected]
Secondary Phone: +972-8-6472547
Department of Middle East Studies
Ben-Gurion University
Beer-Sheva, 84105
Israel
ABOUT
Relli Shechter is a Professor in the Department of Middle East Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Trained as an economic historian, he earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University. His recent books include The Egyptian Social Contract: A History of State-Middle Class Relations (Edinburgh University Press, 2023) and The Rise of the Egyptian Middle Class: Socio-Economic Mobility and Public Discontent from Nasser to Sadat (Cambridge University Press, 2018). His current book project, “Social Contracts in the New Societies of the Middle East: A Socio-Historical Study of Political Pacts, 1945-1967”, explores how and why these pacts shaped regional politics.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Development
Middle East/Near East Studies
Political Economy
19th-21st Centuries
State Formation
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Ottoman Empire
Saudi Arabia
Syria
Iraq
Specialties
Consumption Stds
Econ & Bus Hist
The Social Contract In The Middle East
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (intermediate)
Hebrew (native)
Education
PhD | 1999 | Hist/ME Stds | Harvard U
Abstracts
Localization through Regulation: The Development of Mass Consumer Society in Saudi Arabia since the 1970s Catch-up material culture: consumer anxiety in the making of neo-conservative Saudi socio-politics during the first oil boom, c. 1973-1983 Consumerism and Islamism: Egyptian and Saudi Arabian trajectories during the oil boom era