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Ahmad Shokr
Swarthmore College
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Development
Middle East/Near East Studies
Political Economy
Comparative
Colonialism
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Languages
French (fluent)
Arabic (fluent)
English (native)
Hebrew (advanced)
Education
PhD | 2016 | History and MEIS | New York University
MA | 2006 | Near Eastern Studies | New York University
BA | 2002 | History | University of Toronto
Abstracts
Taming the River: Nile Control, Dam Building, and the Politics of Expertise Managing Mobility: Railways, Cotton, and Anti-Colonialism in Interwar Egypt Capitalism After Empire? Nationalism and Economic Thought in Egypt circa 1919