Maha A. Ghalwash is Associate Professor of Middle East History and Politics. She holds a PhD in Near Eastern Studies (Princeton University), and currently teaches at the British University in Egypt where she is a founding member of the Department of Political Science. Her research on nineteenth-century Egypt focuses on peasant society, socio-economic developments, the impact of law on society, peasant petitioning activity, the peasant land tenure regime, women’s rights to land, and state-peasant relations. She is also interested in Islamist movements; regarding present-day Egypt, she focuses on the Salafi movement, Salafi political parties, politics of the veil, Islamists-state relations; and ISIS, including its recruitment efforts and the role of women in the movement and its territories.
