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Karim Malak
Wagner College
Occupation
Visiting Assistant/Associate Professor
Contact
Secondary Email: [email protected]
213 Department of History
1 Campus Rd
Staten Island NY 10301
United States
ABOUT
Karim Malak is a doctoral candidate at the department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies (MESAAS), at Columbia University, New York. He is also the 2022 Mohamed Ali Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (IMEIS) and Grey College, Durham University. Currently I am a PhD student at the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University, New York.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Middle East/Near East Studies
History Of Science
Arab Studies
Islamic Studies
19th-21st Centuries
History Of Religion
Islamic Law
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Turkey
Syria
Specialties
Histories Of Capitalism And Finance
The Anthropology And History Of Finance And Econom
Nineteenth And Twentieth Century Technologies Of Rule And Government
Languages
Arabic (native)
English (fluent)
French (fluent)
Turkish (advanced)
Ottoman (advanced)
Italian (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2022 | Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies | Columbia University
MA Cantab. | 2015 | Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies (M | Columbia University
BA | 2012 | Political Science | The American University in Cairo (AUC)
Abstracts
Translation’s Discontents: Intellectual Histories of Khayr al-Din al-Tunisi Rexamined Gunpowder Sovereignty in Egypt and the Levant: The Levant Crisis of 1839-41 revisited All Hands on Deck: The Prisoners of the Alexandria Arsenal 1829-1840 Quarantine Rewind: Quarantine in the Eastern Mediterranean under Mehmet Ali, 1831-3