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Amr Leheta
Cornell University
Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Arab Studies
Colonialism
Democratization
Foreign Relations
Identity/Representation
Islamic Thought
Middle East/Near East Studies
Modernization
Nationalism
State Formation
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Arab States
Ottoman Empire
Specialties
Responses To Modernity
Modern Political Thought And Identity
Border Formation
Languages
Arabic (native)
English (fluent)
French (advanced)
Turkish (intermediate)
Spanish (elementary)
Education
MA | 2014 | Middle Eastern Studies | The University of Chicago
BS | 2012 | Regional & Comparative Studies | Georgetown University
Abstracts
Space & Sovereignty in Undefined Territory: Tiran and Sanafir in Modern Times The Production of Territory in the Sinai Peninsula: Egyptian Perspectives on the 1906 Egyptian-Ottoman Separation Boundary The Written Geo-Body and the Territorialization of Egyptian Geography, 1830s–1870s