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Mary Elston
University of Oslo
Occupation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Contact
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Harvard University 6 Divinity Ave
Cambridge MA 02138
United States
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
Islamic Studies
19th-21st Centuries
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Specialties
Egypt, Modern Islam, Religious Education, Traditio
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (advanced)
German (intermediate)
Education
MA | 2011 | Social Science | University of Chicago
BA | 2007 | Middle East Studies | Brown University
Abstracts
Threatening Seclusion after the Coup: The Limits of al-Azhar’s Political and Religious Authority Al-Majalis Al-‘Ilmiyya: Revival and Critique in Egypt’s al-Azhar Social Media Suhba: The Limits of Online Islamic Education in Contemporary Cairo Constructing Turath: Knowledge and Politics at Egypt’s al-Azhar Countering Extremism Through Knowledge: A Twenty-First Century Biographical Dictionary