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I wrote The Politics of Melodrama after realizing that Ihsan Abdel Kouddous’s wildly popular romantic serials operated on two levels. At first glance, they were cliff‑hangers that boosted the circulation of Rose El Youssef<..

I first traveled to Egypt in 2007 for an Arabic-language program. During that initial trip, I became well-acquainted with a Coptic Orthodox Christian family in Cairo’s Masakin Sheraton neighborhood. I experienced Orthodox liturgy for the first time with them, a..

This book stems from a reaction to the pervasive and acritical use of civilizational paradigms in the study of modern Arabic literature.

This book is not so much edited as curated, by a team of Egyptian and international scholars, human rights defenders, and activists who came together in support of prisoners of conscience in Egypt.

Paris is known for the richness of its cinema landscape: it has, by some counts, the most cinemas and cinema screens of any city in the world. After moving here some years ago, I gradually became conscious of a distinct lack of Indian films being screened, espe..

An editor from Oxford University Press contacted me about the possibility of editing a handbook on the history of modern Egypt. Given the years that had passed since the appearance of the classic Cambridge volumes on Egyptian history, there was clearly room and..

I wrote this book for three interrelated reasons. First, I wanted to explore what we could learn about the history of Arab thought if we looked beyond canonical texts by major male intellectuals to work written and edited by women, which often appeared in the m..

My previous work on energy and technology made me acutely aware of how often the physical world is absent from our analysis of social and political realities in the Middle East and elsewhere. Conversely, I noticed how crucial social, political, and cultural asp..