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Alon Tam
Columbia University
Occupation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Contact

United States
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
All Time Periods
Cultural Studies
Gender/Women's Studies
Identity/Representation
Judaic Studies
Maghreb Studies
Mediterranean Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Minorities
Modernization
Queer/LGBT Studies
Urban Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Egypt
Maghreb
Mediterranean Countries
Morocco
Specialties
Mod ME Hist
Social Cultural History
Urban History
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
French (fluent)
Hebrew (fluent)
Persian (elementary)
English (fluent)
Education
PhD | 2018 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | University of Pennsylvania
MA | 2010 | Middle East and African Studies | Tel-Aviv University
BA | 1994 | Mod ME Stds/Arabic Lang & Lit | Tel-Aviv U
Abstracts
The Harkis: On Memory Work, Identity, and the Politics of Belonging Representing Black Identity in Early 20th Century Egypt: The Theater and Film of Ali al-Kassar in Time of Transition Cairo's Coffeehouses, 1860-1960: Between Leisure and Friction Intersecting Mediterraneanism and Social Hierarchy: Cairo’s Coffeehouses at the Turn of the 20th Century Social Hierarchy and the Jewish Community in 20th Century Cairo