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Hanan Kholoussy

  • Position: Chair and Associate Professor of History
  • Department: Sultan Al-Qasimi Department of History
  • Email: hkholoussy@aucegypt.edu
Brief Biography

Hanan Kholoussy is chair of the Sultan Al-Qasimi Department of History and 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 with honors in foreign service and Arab studies from Georgetown University. During this period, she was a study abroad student and a Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) fellow at AUC. She is the author of For Better, For Worse: The Marriage Crisis That Made Modern Egypt (Stanford, 2010) and co-editor of Domestic Tensions, National Anxieties: Global Perspectives on Marriage, Crisis, and Nation (Oxford, 2016). She has published several articles on marriage, gender, Islamic law and Egyptian history and has been a frequent commentator in the international media on Egypt's marriage crisis. She has been teaching courses on history, gender, race, wellness and the Middle East at AUC since 2008 and before that at Temple University and New York University. For more information on Kholoussy, check her feature below in AUC’s Driven Campaign.

In Depth Interview: Hanan Kholoussy (YAB ’97, CASA ’00)

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

  • Refashioning the Shari‘a Courts in the Semi-colonial Period. In Oxford Handbook of Modern Egyptian History. Edited by Beth Baron and Jeffrey Culang. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024: 284-298
  • 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

  • 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
  • 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