The project started as a personal one. I was considering quite a few topics for my MA thesis, but I could not settle on one. I decided to do something completely different and find out what I could about my grandfather’s time working for Egypt’s largest beer co..
Omar Foda
Omar Foda is a historian of the modern Middle East. He has published work in Arab Media and Society, the International Journal of Middle East Studies, Social Sciences and Missions and in several edited volumes. He received his PhD from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania and has taught at Bryn Mawr College, University of Pennsylvania, and Towson University.