Mulki Al-Sharmani is a Research Assistant Professor at the Social Research Center. She received her doctorate in cultural anthropology from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, in 2004. She has been an assistant research progessor at the Social Research Center since 2005, and is also an adjunct teaching faculty at IGWS and CMRS.

Dr. Al-Sharmani has worked on and written about forced migration in Egypt; child protection in Egypt; Muslim family laws and gender justice with a focus on the reforms in Egyptian personal status laws in the last decade.

Research Interests

Muslim family laws, gender, citizenship, forced migration, new diasporas, transnationalism

Recent Publications

‘Egyptian Family Courts: Pathway to Women’s Empowerment?’ In:  Hawwa: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World, 7, 2009: 89-119

'African Refugees: Ambivalent Status and Diasporic Struggles in Cairo' (co-written with Katarzyna Grabska), in:  Singerman, Diane (ed).  Cairo Contested: Governance, Urban Space, and Global Modernity. The American University in Cairo Press, 2009.