Yasmin Shafei is a PhD candidate in Modern Middle Eastern History at the American University of Beirut (AUB). Having spent 15 years working in the field with various UN agencies on gender and health, she returned to academia in 2015 to begin her PhD journey at AUB. She is currently a network editor with H-Egypt and her primary research focuses on the intersections between colonial studies, gender and the histories of medicine and mental health. Specifically, her thesis explores primary documents at the National Archives in Egypt and the United Kingdom to investigate the impact of British colonial rule on the development of psychiatry and state asylums in Egypt during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Arab Studies
Gender/Women's Studies
Health
Historiography
Middle East/Near East Studies
Nationalism
Ottoman Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Lebanon
Ottoman Empire
Palestine
Syria
Specialties
Gender/Women's Studies
19th/20th Century Egypt
Mental Illness
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
English (advanced)
French (intermediate)
Education
PhD
| 2024
| Arab and Middle East History
| American University in Beirut
MA (Hons)
| 2001
| Political Science
| American University in Cairo
BA
| 1992
| Political Science
| American University in Cairo
