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Mary Ann Fay
Morgan State University
Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Secondary Phone: 443-885-1784
Morgan State University
1700 East Cold Spring Lane Department of History
Baltimore MD 21251
United States
ABOUT
My book, Unveiling the Harem: Elite Women and the Paradox of Seclusion in Eighteenth-Century Cairo published by Syracuse University Press in 2012 won the Phi Alpha Theta Best First Book Award and the 2013 Honorable Mention Award from the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Arab Studies
Comparative
Gender/Women's Studies
Islamic Law
Gulf Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Arab States
Egypt
Gulf
Specialties
Soc & Cult Hist Of Ottoman Egypt
Women/Gender In ME-Egypt
Gulf Studies
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (fluent)
Education
PhD | 1993 | Hist | Georgetown U
Abstracts
Race, Gender and Slavery in the Mamluk Households of Eighteenth-Century Egypt Heritage Sites, Collective Memory and National Identity in the United Arab Emirates Where Will the Troubled Women Go:Fatima Mernissi's Memoir of Growing Up in the Harem of Her Childhood When Legal Worlds Collide: Law and Liberation in the United Arab Emirates