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Laura Bier

Laura Bier is an Associate Professor in the School of History and Sociology whose research focuses on the social and cultural history of Egypt in the last half of the 20th century with a particular emphasis on gender history. She received her PhD from New York University in History and Middle East Studies. She has been the recipient of a number of grants, including a Fulbright and a Fulbright-Hays for her research on gender and state socialism in Egypt. Her work has appeared in the journals Feminist Studies and Gender and History and in edited collections on the family in the Middle East and on the Bandung Conference. Her book Revolutionary Womanhood: Feminisms, Modernity and the State in Nasser's Egypt was published by Stanford University Press in 2011. Her current research interests include women in the Arab Spring, the history of domestic technology in Egypt and food history.

ARTICLES BY Laura Bier

  • The Democratization of Well-Being in Nasser’s Egypt

    The Democratization of Well-Being in Nasser’s Egypt

    Just off Tahrir Square,  Muhammad Mahmoud street became famous after the 2011 Egyptian revolution, for, among other things, its vibrant political murals and graffiti which depicted the events of the revolution and its aftermath. My favorite of these, entitled “Pyramids of Crisis,” was painted in..