Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
ABOUT
Sara Khorshid is a PhD candidate in history at Western University (Ontario, Canada). She specializes in modern Middle Eastern history and 20th-century US history, with a focus on transnational, cultural, and social histories. She has also studied Canadian history extensively. Prior to her academic studies at Western University, Khorshid worked as a Cairo-based journalist and columnist for 15 years, and her articles appeared in The New York Times, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, HuffPost, Jadaliyya, Mada Masr, and numerous other outlets. She covered Mubarak's Egypt and US-Egyptian relations, writing feature articles and news reports for The Middle East Times and IslamOnline.net (she also worked for the latter as editor and staff writer). In the wake of the 2011 uprisings in the Arab world, Khorshid continued to write features and news stories as well as opinion and analysis articles for multiple outlets, and she also worked as Senior Editor at the news website Aswat Masriya (a Thomson Reuters project that operated 2011-2017). Khorshid is currently working on her PhD dissertation on Americans' and Egyptians' perceptions of one another as depicted in popular culture during the Cold War period.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Middle East/Near East Studies
19th-21st Centuries
Cinema/Film
Colonialism
Comparative
Foreign Relations
Pop Culture
Nationalism
Transnationalism
Gender/Women's Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Egypt
North America
Specialties
US-Egyptian Relations
Egyptian And American Modern Histories
Egyptian & US Mutual Perceptions And Pop Culture
Languages
Arabic (native)
Education
MA
| 2018
| History
| University of Western Ontario
BA
| 2002
| Faculty of Economics and Political Science
| Cairo University
Abstracts
The Open Door and Women in Post-1952 Egypt
My Wife Is a General Director: Pop Culture and State Feminism in Nasser Era Egypt
