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Michael Reimer

Michael Reimer

  • Position: Professor of History
  • Department: Sultan Al-Qasimi Department of History
  • Email: mjreimer@aucegypt.edu
Brief Biography

Michael Reimer took his PhD in History from Georgetown University in 1989. He has taught history at The American University in Cairo (AUC) since 1990. His courses explore: state and society in the modern Middle East; the history of how America and Americans have interacted with governments and peoples of the Middle East; Zionism and modern Judaism, the state of Israel, and the Arab-Israeli conflict; Second Temple Judaism/early Christianity, including the modern quest of the historical Jesus.

  • Teaching the History of Zionism in an Arab Context: Empirical and Ethical Imperatives, Teaching History: A Journal of Methods, 49.1, Winter 2024, 142-166.
  • Israel, Hamas, and the Burdens of History, Cairo Review of Global Affairs, No. 52, Fall 2024. 

  • Zionism’s ‘Mighty Leap: A Rhetorical History of Dr. Karpel Lippe’s Address to the First Zionist Congress in Basel, 1897, Rhetoric and Public Affairs (January 2020), 23.4, 675-706

  • The First Zionist Congress: An Annotated Translation of the Proceedings (Albany), NY: SUNY Press, 2019

  • Control of Urban Waqfs in al-Salt, Transjordan, in Held in Trust: Uses of Waqf in the Muslim World, Pascale Ghazaleh, ed., Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2011, pp. 103-120

  • Galilee vs. Jerusalem: Space and Temporality in Mark’s Gospel, Humanist Perspectives on Sacred Space (Cairo Papers in Social Science, 31:1, published 2011), David Blanks and Bradley S. Clough, eds., pp. 80-98

  • Egyptian Views of Ottoman Rule: Five Historians and their Works, 1820-1920, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, 31:1 (2011), pp. 149-163

  • Converting the Missionaries, review of Heather Sharkey, American Evangelicals in Egypt: Missionaries Encounters in an Age of Empire (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008), in Diplomatic History (2011), 35:1, pp. 47-50

  • The Quest of the Historical Jesus at the American University in Cairo: A Progress Report, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, 21:1 (2010), pp. 23-38

  • The Mansuri Collection at the Library of Congress: An Underutilized Resource for the Study of Religious, Intellectual, and Social History, 44:1 (2010), pp. 19-32.