As religiopolitical movements like the Society of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt and the Bharatiya Janata Party in India have entered electoral politics, they have sought to expand the acceptability of religious discourse and religious reason in the secular political sphere. Yet t…
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This dissertation explores the impact of an authoritarian state on the university as represented by the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at Cairo University in Cairo, Egypt. I examine how academics negotiate their tasks of acquiring, disseminating and producing knowled…
Why has legal and judicial reform in the Arab region failed in promoting the rule of law, ensuring judicial independence and safeguarding democratic values: prerequisites for economic, political, and social development? This dissertation attempts to address this failure in the c…
This dissertation examines patterns of Islamist political mobilization in Egypt and Indonesia. It focuses on the development of major political organizations formed in both countries whose primary goal is the establishment of Islamic state. By focusing on these organizations, th…
Ahmad Amin (1886-1954) was a well established historian and a liberal thinker on the issue of cultural reform. His son, Husayn (1932-), is also widely known for his argument against the Islamic radicalism, particularly from the angle of a historian and a judiciary. Their roles a…
Senior Islamic authorities (`ulama ) have reached different levels of consensus when contesting their response to major international events in the 21st century, largely agreeing on the appropriate response in some cases while remaining strongly divided in others. This variation…
This study examines how change happens within Islamist organizations and what causal mechanisms underlie the adoption or abandonment of violent tactics. The project argues that ideological and tactical changes are determined by the interaction of five factors: founding principle…
This thesis aims to explore Egypt's reaction to scholar Nasr Hamid Abu Zaid during the mid-nineties when his promotion was denied and marriage annulled via court ruling vis-à-vis the period around 2010 when he began frequenting Egypt and appearing on television prior to his deat…
This dissertation contributes to the growing scholarship attempting to analyze and understand devout religious engagement, and to cull from its study insights about human motivation, complexity and desire. It considers the lives, goals and activities of pious Muslim women in Cai…
Arabic historical narratives from fifteenth century Egypt allow a holistic exploration of the parallels and dichotomies inherent in debates regarding plague epidemics and etiology, classical Islamic medicine, and the fluid and yet precarious societal position of the ulama as his…
This dissertation examines the representations of late Egyptian President Gamal 'Abdel Nasser (1918-1970) in Egyptian literature and film. It focuses on how the historical character of Nasser has emerged in the Egyptian imaginary--novel, short stories, autobiographies, and films…
This dissertation examines the history of the translation of the European novel into Arabic from the middle of the 19th century until the 1930's primarily in Egypt and Lebanon. It studies the complex exchange in this particular context of translation under different forms of Bri…
The dissertation explains why similar coup-installed regimes in Egypt (1952), Iran (1921), and Turkey (1923) developed along different political trajectories (authoritarianism, royal absolutism, and democracy, respectively). While most studies of regime change tend to underline …
This dissertation examines the specific forms of embodied suffering war and its refugee aftermath brings to female Sudanese refugees currently living in post-revolution Cairo, Egypt in order to illustrate the suffering and healing enacted within everyday life. These women, displ…
Even though aid is a cornerstone of the Egyptian-American relationship, there is little research about economic aid's role in achieving US objectives, especially in producing policy alignment that would normalize Israel. Likewise, an under-studied derivative question is how the …
This dissertation seeks to rekindle a discussion of late Sunni creativity and innovation through a study into the life and thought of Zakariyya al-Ans[dotbelow]ari (d. 926/1520), an influential Shafi'i legist and Sufi from Egypt's late-Mamluk period. It is driven by two fundamen…
This dissertation is a case study in Christian identity in the pre-Constantinian era based on papyrus fragments found at the site of the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. Using the image of the city marketplace, a place of social interaction, the study asks whether Christian…
This thesis examines the ancient Egyptian symbolic landscape of Memphis to the end of the Old Kingdom, circa 2100 BC. The principal research objective is to examine what monuments mean and evaluate them within the context of an existing symbolic system, in contrast to the tradit…
Study of the decoration of the elite Egyptian tomb of the Old and Middle Kingdom has often focused on examination of individual scenes, taken out of their architectural contexts, and seen as illustrations of the daily life of the ancient Egyptians. This approach is very valuable…