Desert borderland: the making of modern Egypt and Libya

Introduction : rethinking territorial Egypt

Legal exceptionalism in Egypt's borderlands

Accommodating Egyptian sovereignty in Siwa

'Abbas Hilmi II and the anatomy of a Siwan murder

Cultivating territorial sovereignty in the western desert

The limits of Ottoman sovereignty in the eastern Sahara

The emergence of Egypt's western border conflict

Conclusion : unsettling the Egyptian-Libyan border.