Is a history lecturer in Queens College and doctoral candidate in the history department in the City University of New York, the Graduate Center. His current research project focuses on revolutionary temporalities, generational memories and gender in Egypt between 1967 and 2011. He graduated from the political science department in Cairo University and has a Master's degree in Arab Studies from Georgetown University, where he wrote a thesis on the history and memory of banditry and folk outlaws in early 20th-century Egypt.