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Eid Mohamed
Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
18 Southcreek Trail
Guelph ON N1G 4Y8
Canada
ABOUT
Dr. Eid Mohamed is currently an assistant professor of transnational cultural and literary studies at Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, and an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Guelph, Canada. In 2014, he was an academic consultant and a lecturer of Arab Studies at Renison College, University of Waterloo. In 2013, Dr. Mohamed was a research fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Mohamed served also as a visiting assistant professor at the State University of New York in Binghamton and a joint fellow at Brookings Doha Center and Qatar University. Dr. Mohamed’s teaching and research are chiefly cross-cultural and interdisciplinary, dealing with society vs. culture, and text vs. visuality. Author of many published journal articles, and he has given numerous lectures at academic and professional meetings. Dr. Mohamed has authored and co-edited many books including: Arab Occidentalism: Images of America in the Middle East, I.B. Tauris (2015), Beyond Egypt’s Tahrir Square, Indiana University Press (2016) (a co-edited volume with Dr. Bessma Momani), Education and the Arab Spring: Shifting Towards Democracy, Netherlands: Sense Publishers (2015), Who Defines Me: Negotiating Identity in Language and Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2014)and The Arab Spring: Between Cultural Initiatives and Political Uncertainty, book manuscript in process.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Arab Studies
Cultural Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Colonialism
Comparative
Identity/Representation
Modern
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Egypt
Specialties
Arab Occidentalism
Perceptions Of Self & Other In Arabic Literature/P
U.S. Cultural Productions Of The Middle East
Languages
Arabic (native)
English (fluent)
Education
PhD | 2011 | American Studies | George Washington University
MA | 2010 | American Studies | George Washington University
MA | 2005 | English | Minia University
Abstracts
The Reluctant Fundamentalist: South Asian Subalternity and the Re-framing of Arab American Studies Politics and Popular Culture in Egypt Since 2011: Contested Narratives and Competing Identities