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Curriculum Vitae

 

Research:  

My scholarly research has focused on Arab nationalism in Egypt and the Fertile Crescent, and on the representation of Arabs and Muslims in western imaginative and scholarly literature. I have recently turned my attention to the study of radical critiques of religion and religious institutions in the Arab world, and, more particularly, to the study of the work of the Syrian philosopher Sadiq Jalal al-Azm.

Publications:

Books:

  • The Making of an Egyptian Ara Nationalist: The Early Years of Azzam Pasha. 1893-1936 (Reading, UK: Ithaca Press, 1998).
  • Arab, African and Islamic Worlds: Interdisciplinary Studies. (Baltimore: Peter Lang, 2000). Editied with Prof. Kevin Lacey of Binghamton University.

Chapters in Books:

  • "Paul Bowles and Orientalism" in Mirrors on the Maghreb. (Ann Arbor: Caravan Press, 1996). Edited by Kevin Lacey and Francis Poole.
  • "Siapakah yang Mencipta Nasionalisme Arab Mesir" in Nasionalme Satu Tinjauan Sjarah. (Kuala Lampur: Fajr Bakti, 1985). Edited by R. Sunthralingam and Abdul Rahman Haji Ismail.
  • "Culture and Nationalism" in Islamic Thought in the Twentieth Century. (London: Harwood Publishing, forthcoming). Edited by Bashir Nafi and Lou Cantori.

Articles:

  • "Who 'Invented' Egyptian Arab Nationalism?" in International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 14, nos. 3 and 4, August and November, 1982, pp. 249-281 and 3wpp. 459-479.
  • "Egyptian Arab Nationalism and 'Arab Ethnicity' " in Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, vol.25, 1988, pp. 61-70.
  • "The Polotics of the Funeral: The Tomb of Saad Zaghlul" in the Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt,, vol. 29, 1992, pp. 191-200.
  • "A New Aryanism?" in the Mediterranean Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 3, summer 1994, pp. 42-56.
  • "The Arab Nationalism of Makram Ubayd" in The Journal of Islamic Studies, (Oxford), vol. 6, no. 1, January, 1995, pp.76-90.
  • "Neomoderization Theory and its Search for Enimies: The Role of the Arabs and Islam" in Left Curve, no. 21, Spring 1997, pp. 80-85.
  • "The Persistance and Rehabilitation of Orientalism: The Case of Paul Bowles" in Third Text, London, no. 37, summer 1997, pp. 67-76.
  • "The Twain Met: Paul Bowles's Western and Arab Critics" in a special issue of Public entitled "Entangled Territories: Imagining the Orient," Toronto, 1997, pp. 122-141.

Edited Journals:

  • "Islam and Nationalism," a special issue of the Muslim World, vol. 87, April, 1997.