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Michael Reimer

Michael Reimer

  • Position: Professor of History
  • Department: Sultan Al-Qasimi Department of History
  • Email: [email protected]
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.