Occupation
Adjunct Professor
Contact
Email: arabmny84@gmail.com
ABOUT
Mohamed Gamal-Eldin is a historian of Modern Egypt, who is interested in questions related to the built environment, urban history, architecture, social history and environmental ecology of urban centers in 19th and early 20th century Egypt, the Middle East and globally. His dissertation is an interdisciplinary project on the Suez Canal cities from 1856-1936. It is an environmental, architectural and infrastructural history that looks at the evolution of the canal towns and provides a lens into the social history of those who resided in the towns. He has published on malaria prevention in Ismailiyya and has a forthcoming chapter on health, education and water systems, and their linkages, from early 20th century until the popular uprising that removed Husni Mubarak in 2011.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Colonialism
Middle East/Near East Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Egypt
Palestine
Specialties
Nationalism And Identity
19th Century Egypt
Urban And Environmental History
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
French (advanced)
Education
MA
| 2012
| Middle East Studies
| American University in Cairo
BA
| 2008
| History
| Temple University
Abstracts
Watering the Urban: Canals, Irrigation, Water and the Growth of Suez Canal Cities
Cesspools, Mosquitos and Fever: An Environmental History of Malaria Prevention in Ismailia and Port Sa‘id, 1869-1910
War, Memory and Memorial Building: A Case Study of the World War I Monument on the Suez Canal, 1920-1932.
Surveillance and Policing of Port Sa‘id, Ismailia and Suez’s Streets: An Urban History of the Suez Canal Zone
Fragments of the City: A Socio-Cultural History of the Suez Canal Cities Built Environment
Healthscaping along the Suez Canal, 1860-1936
Landscaping Gardens in Urban Egypt: Hospitals and Gardens in 19th-20th Century Cairo, Alexandria and the Suez Canal Cities