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ABOUT
Pronouns: She/her/hers. I’m a Senior Lecturer in the Medicine, Science, and the Humanities program. Trained in political theory, political philosophy and intellectual history, I work on the question of justice at the intersection of history, political theory, and science, technology and medicine studies. With a focus on medicine and public health, my research addresses the questions of health and social justice, biomedical ethics, and the medicine-politics nexus, with a geographical focus on the Middle East and a special interest in postcolonial and gender studies. My research interests focus on medical expertise and how it is deployed in different political contexts. In this framework, I focus on gender and race as important contributors to the fashioning of the medical profession and as key determinants of health and access to medical care. I am currently finishing a book manuscript (co-authored with Sherine Hamdy, UC Irvine, in preparation with Stanford University Press) on the roles played by doctors in revolutionary and post-revolutionary Egypt, and working on another book project on the social roles of doctors in postcolonial Egypt. I am editor of the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies (JMEWS) and associate editor of the Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies (JIMS).
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Health
History Of Medicine
History Of Science
Middle East/Near East Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Languages
Arabic (native)
English (fluent)
French (fluent)
Italian (advanced)
Spanish (intermediate)
Russian (elementary)
German (elementary)
Education
PhD
| 2012
| Political Thought
| Sciences Po Paris
MA
| 2005
| Political History and Theory
| Sciences Po Paris
BA
| 2004
| Political Science
| Cairo University
Abstracts
"Doctors of the Revolution”: Egypt’s Political Uprisings and the Limits of Medical Neutrality
Egyptian Doctors’ Fight for Health and Social Justice: The Paradox of the Activist-Expert
“The Dignity of Doctors”: Socio-professional Mobilization and Political Activism in Post-Mubarak Egypt
Doctors as Witnesses: Forensic Medicine and Medical Testimonies in Post-Revolutionary Egypt
What Place for Emotions in Academic Activism?
The Good (Colonial) Doctor? Arthur Cecil Alport’s Medical Crusade and its Reinvention in Postcolonial Egypt
Women Doctors and Narratives of Resistance in Egypt
