Mona Abaza
Associate Professor, Tenure
Born in Egypt.
BA in Political science at The American University in Cairo, Egypt.
MA in Sociology University of Durham, UK, in 1986
Ph.D in 1990, University of Bielefeld
Currently Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Egyptology and Psychology at the American University in Cairo. She was a visiting scholar in Singapore (ISEAS), Kuala Lumpur, Paris (EHESS), Berlin (Wissenschaftskolleg), Leiden (IIAS), Wassenaar (NIAS) and Bellagio (Rockefeller Foundation). Her research interests are religious and cultural networks between the Middle East and Southeast Asia, the Hadhrami diaspora in Southeast Asia and Consumer culture in Egypt.
Publications:
Debates on Islam and Knowledge in Malaysia and Egypt, Shifting Worlds, Routledge Curzon Press, UK. 2002.
Islamic Education, Perceptions and Exchanges: Indonesian Students in Cairo, Cahier d'Archipel, 23. EHESS, Paris. 1994.
The Changing Image of Women in Rural Egypt , Cairo Papers in Social Science, The American University in Cairo, 1987.
The Changing Consumer Culture of Modern Egypt, Cairo’s Urban Reshaping, Brill/AUC Press, 2006.