Hanan
Kholoussy
Position
Associate Professor
Department
Department of History
Email
Profile
Brief Biography
Hanan Kholoussy is an associate professor of history at The American University in Cairo (AUC). She earned a joint PhD with distinction in history and Middle Eastern and Islamic studies from New York University, and a joint BS/MA degree with honors in foreign service and Arab studies from Georgetown University.
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Books
- Domestic Tensions, National Anxieties: Global Perspectives on Marriage, Crisis, and Nation. Co-edited with Kristin Celello. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016
- For Better, For Worse: The Marriage Crisis That Made Modern Egypt, 1898-1936. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010 (co-published in the Middle East with The American University Press, 2010)
Refereed Book Chapters
- Mining the Archives of Semi-Colonial Cairo’s Shari‘a Courts. In Oxford Handbook of Modern Egyptian History. Edited by Beth Baron and Jeffrey Culang. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022
- With Kristin Celello, Introduction: Global Perspectives on Marriage, Crisis, and Nation. Domestic Tensions, National Anxieties: Global Perspectives on Marriage, Crisis, and Nation. Edited by Kristin Celello and Hanan Kholoussy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016: 1-15
- Monitoring and Medicalising Male Sexuality in Semi-Colonial Egypt. Gender and Sexuality in Islam. Edited by Omnia El Shakry. UK: Routledge, 2016. Originally published in Gender and History. Vol. 22, No. 3 (November 2010): 677-691
- The Fiction (and Non-Fiction) of Egypt's Marriage Crisis. The Journey to Tahrir: Revolution, Protest and Social Change in Egypt, 1999-2011. Edited by Chris Toensing and Jeannie Sowers. New York: Verso, 2012: 272-279.
- Interfaith Unions and Non-Muslim Wives in Early Twentieth-Century Alexandrian Islamic Courts. Untold Histories of the Middle East: Recovering Voices from the 19th and 20th Centuries. Edited by Amy Singer, Christoph K. Neumann, and S. Aksin Somel. London: Routledge, 2010: 54-70
- The Nationalization of Marriage in Monarchical Egypt.” Re-Envisioning Egypt, 1919-1952. Edited by Arthur Goldschmidt et al. New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2005: 317–350. Translated into Arabic by Sameh Samir: “Ta’mim al-Zawaj fi Misr fil-‘Ahd al-Malaki. Tiba: Majalla Niswiyya Nadhariya. Vol. 5, No. 13 (December 2009): 89-146
Refereed Journal Articles
- The Private Affairs of Public Officials: Marriage and Masculinity in Interwar and Post-Mubarak Egypt. Die Welt des Islams: International Journal for the Study of Modern Islam. Vol. 54, No. 3-4 (Fall 2014): 483-503
- Internationalizing Interwar Egypt's Bachelor Tax Proposal: The Emasculation of the State and Its Single Sons. Cairo Papers in Social Science: Masculinities in Egypt and the Arab World: Historical, Literal, and Social Science Perspectives. Vol. 33, No.1 (March 2014): 12-31
- Monitoring and Medicalising Male Sexuality in Semi-Colonial Egypt. Gender and History. Vol. 22, No. 3 (November 2010): 677-691
- Talking About a Revolution: Gender and the Politics of Marriage in Early Twentieth-Century Egypt. Graduate Researcher: Journal for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology. Vol. 1, No. 2 (2003): 25-34. Translated into Arabic by Mona Ali Ibrahim: “Al-Hadith ‘an Thawrat al-Naw‘a al-Ijtima‘i wa Siyasat al-Zawaj fi Misr fi Bidayat al-Qarn al-‘Ashrin.” Tiba: Majalla Niswiyya Nadhariya. Vol. 1, No. 5 (September 2004): 9-29
- Stolen Husbands, Foreign Wives: Mixed Marriage, Identity Formation, and Gender in Colonial Egypt, 1909-23. Hawwa: Journal of Women in the Middle East and the Islamic World. Vol. 1, No. 2 (July 2003): 206-240
Solicited Magazine Articles, Book Reviews and Encyclopedia Entries
- What’s Here to Stay? Promising Practices for Post Pandemic Teaching and Learning. New Chalk Talk. 21 September 2021
- Learning Online, Teaching Online: How My Students Inspired Me to Bring Wellness into the Classroom and Bring My Classroom to Instagram. New Chalk Talk. 21 September 2021
- Review of Nurturing the Nation: The Family Politics of Modernizing, Colonizing, and Liberating Egypt, 1805-1923 by Lisa Pollard. Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History. Vol. 7, No. 1 (Spring 2006)
- Marriage Practices: Arab States. Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. Vol. 3. Edited by Suad Joseph. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2005: 250-252
- Review of Planning the Family in Egypt: New Bodies, New Selves by Kamran Asdar Ali. International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. Vol. 35, No. 1 (February 2004): 132-134
- Review of Discourses on Gender/Gendered Discourses in the Middle East edited by Boaz Shoshan. Arab Studies Journal. Vol. 9, No. 2/Vol. 10, No. 1 (Fall 2001/Spring 2002):131-134
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- AUC Excellence in Teaching Award, 2012
- AUC Provost Award for Extraordinary Service in the Department of History and as its Senate Representative, 2012
- Honorable Mention for the Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award in Humanities, 2008
- New York University Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, 2007
- Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2004
- American Research Center in Egypt Dissertation Fellowship, 2003
- Foreign Language Area Studies Research Abroad Fellowship, 2003
- Center for Arabic Study Abroad Fellowship, 1999
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- A History of Happiness
- A History of Healing
- The Marriage Crisis and the Middle East
- Women and Gender
- The Making of the Modern Arab World
- A History of Women (and Men)
- Arabs in America
- State and Society in the Middle East, 1699-1914
- Introduction to Middle East Studies
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Middle East Studies
- Research Methods in Middle East Studies
- History Honor’s Thesis Seminar
- Historical Theory and Methodology
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- Devon Murray, “Promoting Well-Being In and Out of the Classroom,” News@AUC, 5 October 2021
- Special Guest of Vereena Bishoy, Host of The Caravan’s Podcast RADUC, 16 September 2021
- Noran Alaa Morsi, “10 English Words You Didn’t Know Came From Arabic,” Egyptian Streets, 1 October 2020
- Farida Al Deeb, “Distant Learning: From the Viewpoint of Professors,” AUC Caravan, 26 September 2020
- Noran Alaa Morsi, “Middle East of What? On Identity Politics and Eurocentric Definitions,” Egyptian Streets, 20 August 2020
- “Up in Arms over a TikTok Star: Public Morality and the State,” Mada Masr, 29 April 2020
- Dina Meky et al, “For Better or Worse: Why Divorce Is Difficult for Egyptian Women,” AUC Caravan, Volume 92, Issue 2 (25 September 2011)
- Jenna Krajeski, “Love and Revolution,” The New Yorker Magazine, 14 February 2011
- Hoda Abdelhamid, “Egypt Marriage Costs Spark Crisis,” Al Jazeera English Television, 17 October 2010
- Carina Kamel, “Gateway to the Middle East, CNBC Video, 22 December 2010
- Hadeel Al-Shalchi, “In Egypt’s ‘Marriage Crisis,’ a TV Sit-com Becomes a Hit by Laying Out The Woman’s Side,” Associated Press, 04 October 2010
- Deborah Amos, “In Egypt, Carrie Bradshaw in a Headscarf,” All Things Considered audio program and print article, National Public Radio (NPR), 17 August 2010
- Lena Aloumari, “New History Class Offers Insight into Egypt’s Marriage Crisis,” AUC Caravan Volume 90, Issue 19 (9 May 2010)
