Title Historian and Adjunct Professor in the Department of History AUC

Bio

Is a historian specializing in the modern Middle East, with research interests in Islamic modernism, Islamic thought, and the social and intellectual history of modern Egypt, particularly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He completed his Master of Arts in Islamic Studies at McGill University, with a thesis titled “Masking Islamist Politics: Pseudo-Authenticity and Producing al-Marʾa al-Muslima in Zaynab al-Ghazālī’s Writings in the Twentieth Century.” Currently, he is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of History at the American University in Cairo and a researcher with the Patterns of Cairo project.