Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
School of History Office K107
Newman Building
University College Dublin, Belfield
Dublin
Dublin
Dublin 4
Ireland
ABOUT
Hussein A H Omar is a Junior Research Fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford and a Research Associate at the History Faculty, working on the 'First World War and Global Religions’ project. His postdoctoral research examines the anti-colonial insurrectionary movements in Egypt and Iraq between 1919-1920. It builds on his doctoral thesis, ‘The Rule of Strangers’, which examined political ideas, as well as the very emergence of politics as an autonomous category, in Egypt between 1869 and 1914. Other areas of research interest include: how the property endowed to God (waqf) was managed by the colonial and postcolonial state; the limits of pan-Islamism as a political project; and Muslim sovereignty and kingship, before, after and during the Ottoman defeat in the First World War
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Colonialism
Islamic Thought
South Asian Studies
Historiography
Ottoman Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Iran
Languages
Arabic (native)
English (native)
French (advanced)
Persian (intermediate)
Turkish (elementary)
Italian (elementary)
Education
MPhil
| 2009
| Modern Middle East Studies
| University of Oxford
BA
| 2007
| History
| Oxford University
Abstracts
And I Saw No Reason to Chronicle My Life": Between the Autobiography and Diaries of Fathallah Barakat Pasha
Minority as Microbe: Sectarian Political Thought in Late Khedival Egypt
Liberal Longings in Republican Egypt (1977-2013)
Colonialism by Comparison: Christians, Muslims and Empire in Egypt, 1882-1911
Archival Dregs; or Papers of National Unimportance in Egypt
Neither Wilson nor Lenin: 1919 as a revolution in ideas
Theories of the Political: Insights from Egypt, 1882-1919
