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Katharine Halls
University of Manchester
Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Gender/Women's Studies
Judaic Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Ottoman Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Egypt
Specialties
Egyptian Jews
Mizrahi Jews
Karaites
Languages
English (native)
Arabic (fluent)
French (fluent)
Hebrew (intermediate)
Education
MA | 2018 | Middle East Studies Center | American University in Cairo
MA | 2013 | Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies | University of Manchester
BA | 2011 | Oriental Studies | University of Oxford
Abstracts
“Everything Was Fine”: Rehabilitating the Jewish Other in Egyptian Historiographical Discourse. ‘It’s the pound that talks’: Dowry debates in the Karaite Jewish community in 1940s-50s Cairo ‘Not Worthy of Belief’: Testimonies of Rape in Egypt, 1919