Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Department of Humanities
Northumbria University
Lipman Building, Sandyford Road
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE1 8SB
United Kingdom
ABOUT
Qualifications:
BA European and Middle Eastern Languages, University of Oxford
MSt Oriental Studies, University of Oxford
DPhil Oriental Studies, University of Oxford
Research Interests:
Middle Eastern history; Arabic literature; nineteenth-century Arab Nahda; Ottoman Empire; comparative history.
Publications:
‘Ottoman Despotism and Islamic Constitutionalism in Mehmed Ali’s Egypt’. Past & Present, forthcoming.
‘The First Arabic Translations of Enlightenment Literature: The Damietta Circle of the 1800s and 1810s’. Intellectual History Review, Vol. 24, No. 2, Summer 2015, 209-233.
‘Early Arabic Translations of English Fiction: The Pilgrim’s Progress and Robinson Crusoe’. Journal of Semitic Studies, Vol. LX, No. 1, Spring 2015, 177-212.
Book manuscript in progress:
Utopia and Civilisation in the Arab Nahda.
Undergraduate Teaching:
Parts of the Modern and Classical Arabic Literature courses (Oriental Institute, University of Oxford) and the Middle East in the Age of Empire (History Faculty, University of Oxford).
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Arabic
Cultural Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Ottoman Studies
Translation
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Mashreq
Ottoman Empire
The Levant
Specialties
Arab Nahda, Intellectual History, Translation
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (fluent)
German (intermediate)
English (native)
Education
MSt
| 2012
| Oriental Institute
| University of Oxford
BA
| 2010
| Oriental Institute
| University of Oxford
Abstracts
The first Arabic translations of Enlightenment writing: Damietta, 1808-1818
Protestantism, enlightenment, and unbelief in nineteenth-century Syria
Medical certainty and religious doubt: two nineteenth-century Syrian physicians on scepticism and materialism
‘A man who knows only Arabic’: the multilingual networks of a monolingual intellectual, Mikha’il Mishaqa (1800-1888)
