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Alaa El-Shafei
Columbia University
Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
503 West 148
Apt. 22
New York NY 10031
United States
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
13th-18th Centuries
19th-21st Centuries
Arab Studies
Banking & Finance
Colonialism
Comparative
Historiography
Islamic Law
Islamic Studies
Modern
Nationalism
Ottoman Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Egypt
Ottoman Empire
Languages
Arabic (native)
English (native)
French (intermediate)
Turkish (intermediate)
Education
MA | 2019 | Middle East Studies | Columbia University
Abstracts
A Captive Underworld: Inmate Subculture and Resistance in the Anglo-Egyptian Prison, 1890-1930 Convicts and Conscripts: Race and Colonial Carcerality in Egypt and Sudan, 1880-1920