Emporialism

A comparative study of iconographic and fictional representations of department stores in France and Egypt, as sites of imperial and Mediterranean cultural memory, from 1869 to the present. Honorable Mention, for the 2025 René Wellek Prize presented by the American Comparative Literature Association This book examines what Amr Kamal calls the phenomenon of emporialism , or the convergence between the spaces and imaginaries of empires and emporia in the context of a modern Mediterranean divided a