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Nefertiti Takla
Georgetown University
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Colonialism
Gender/Women's Studies
Mediterranean Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Nationalism
State Formation
Transnationalism
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Egypt
Europe
Mediterranean Countries
Palestine
Specialties
Gender And Sexuality In Interwar Egypt
The Effects Of WWI On The Middle East
Migrant Labor In Mediterranean Port Cities
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
French (advanced)
Hebrew (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2016 | History | UCLA
MA | 2009 | History | UCLA
BA | 2002 | History | UCLA
Abstracts
Nationalizing the Working Class: Transnational Criminality and the Expulsion of ‘Undesirables’ from Alexandria, Egypt, 1926 - 1935 Subaltern Violence and the Spatialization of Class Relations in Early Interwar Alexandria Theorizing the Informal Economy During WWI: Workers and Political Economic Change in Alexandria, Egypt, 1914 - 1921 Labor Uprisings in Early Interwar Alexandria: Rethinking the Egyptian Revolution of 1919 in the Framework of the Global Economy Raya and Sakina through the Ages: The Coloniality of Gender in Egyptian Film and Television