Prior to graduate school, I spent two years living in Cairo while studying Arabic. This was a period in which the main question that animated debates over Islam related to the Muslim Brotherhood’s participation in the political system.
Aaron Rock-Singer
Aaron Rock-Singer is a social and intellectual historian of the modern Middle East and Islam. He received his BA from the University of Pennsylvania (2007), his MPhil from St. Antony’s College, Oxford (2010) and his PhD from Princeton’s Department of Near Eastern Studies (2016). Following a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House, he joined Cornell's Department of Near Eastern Studies as a Visiting Assistant Professor. In the Fall of 2019, he will begin a tenure track position in Middle Eastern History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.