Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, History D.Phil. 1993, Oxford University. Email:
[email protected] Research Interests: Social and cultural history of modern Egypt. Affiliations: Middle East Studies Association, Egyptian Historical Association, American Historical Association. Fellowships/Honors: Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence (1993-94); Malcolm Kerr Awards of the Middle East Studies Association for best humanities dissertation: honorable mention (1993); Faculty Fellow in the Project on Cities and Urban Knowledges, International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University (2000-2001). Selected Works: All the Pasha's Men: Mehmed Ali, His Army and the Making of Modern Egypt (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1997). "An olfactory tale of two cities: Cario in the ninteenth century," in Historians in Cairo: Essays in Honor of George Scanlon, ed. Jill Edwards. (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2002) "Prostitution in nineteenth-century Egypt," in Outside in: On the Margins of the Modern Middle East, ed. Eugene Rogan. (London: I.B. Tauris, 2001). "The police and the people in nineteenth-century Egypt", Die Welt des Islams, 39 (1999), 1- 38. "The anatomy of Justice: Forensic medicine and criminal law in nineteenth-century Egypt," Islamic Law and Society, 6 (1999), pp. 1-48. "Women, medicine and power in nineteenth-century Egypt," in Remaking Women, ed. Lila Abu-Lughod. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998)
