Associate Professor, Tenure

Mona Abaza has been a visiting scholar in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Paris, Berlin and Leiden. 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

Abaza's publications include:

"Debates on Islam and Knowledge in Malaysia and Egypt, Shifting Worlds," RoutledgeCurzon 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.

A forthcoming book is titled: "Commodities and Consumption in Cairo: Shopping Malls and Popular Culture in Modern Egypt."