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Mohamed Abdou
New York University
Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies,
50 Washington Square S
New York NY 10012
United States
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Ottoman Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
World History
Political Economy
19th-21st Centuries
13th-18th Centuries
Islamic Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Sudan
Indian Ocean Region
Islamic World
Balkans
Specialties
Law, Morality, Property, Materiality Of Urban-rura
Languages
Arabic (native)
Turkish (advanced)
French (intermediate)
Ottoman (advanced)
Persian (elementary)
Education
PhD | 2023 | Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies | New York University
MPhil | 2018 | Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies | New York University
MA | 2014 | Middle East Studies | American University in Cairo
BA | 2009 | History & Political Science | American University in Cairo
Abstracts
Waqf Reform as International Treaty: Empire, Sovereignty, and Minority Rights in the Khedival Waqfs in Kavala and Thasos, 1902-1924 Family, Law, and Capital Accumulation: Contending Ottoman and Egyptian Visions of the Khedival Waqf 1882-1922 Elusive Fish in a Pond: State-Fishermen Contestation & the Formation of Sovereignty in the Manzala Lake Region of Lower Egypt, 1834-1914