Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Department of History
Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive
Burnaby BC V5A 1S6
Canada
ABOUT
Paul Sedra is Associate Professor of History at Simon Fraser University, and Middle East Editor of the Wiley-Blackwell journal, History Compass. A specialist in modern Egyptian history, Sedra has taught at Dalhousie University and the University of Toronto, and received his doctorate from New York University in January 2006. His most recent book, From Mission to Modernity: Evangelicals, Reformers and Education in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, is published by I.B. Tauris.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Arab Studies
Cinema/Film
Colonialism
History Of Religion
Identity/Representation
Middle East/Near East Studies
Minorities
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Egypt
Islamic World
Ottoman Empire
Specialties
Christian-Muslim Rltns
Hist Of Educ
Missionary Mvmts
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
French (fluent)
German (advanced)
Spanish (advanced)
Education
PhD
| 2006
| ME & islamic Stds
| New York U
MPhil
| 1999
| Modern Middle Eastern Studies
| Oxford University
BA
| 1997
| Woodrow Wilson School
| Princeton University
Abstracts
From Citizenship to Protection in Egyptian Public Life: The Role of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Modern Sectarianism
A Missionary Pope in a Secular Age? Reappraising the Role of Kirollos VI in Modern Egyptian History
