This title is part of ‎"‎Cairo Papers in Social Science‎"‎ series‎.‎ Cynthia Nelson was an outstanding professor of anthropology at AUC and the founding director of the Institute of Gender and Women‎'‎s Studies‎.‎ This collection of her essays‎,‎ which highlight her distinguished scholarly career‎,‎ is grouped under three main themes‎:‎ phenomenology and the meaning of religious phenomena in Egypt‎;‎ women‎,‎ power‎,‎ and politics in the Middle East‎;‎ and the politics and ethics of location‎.‎ Cynthia Nelson was the editor of the first Cairo Papers monograph in 1977‎:‎ thirty years later‎,‎ this issue marks her legacy to the humanistic and social scientific understanding of Egypt‎,‎ a legacy balanced by the enormous institutional contributions she made to establishing feminist anthropology in Egypt‎.‎