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The Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program presents
Amina Elbendary
Shawwaff Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Amina Elbendary is the Shawwaf Visiting Professor for Fall 2023 where she will be teaching two courses at the NELC department. She is Associate Professor and former chair at the Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations at the American University in Cairo. Her research revolves around social and cultural history of Mamluk Egypt and Syria and she's currently working on the history of popular culture in medieval Egypt. Her publications include the monograph Crowds and Sultans: Urban Protest in Late Medieval Egypt and Syria (2015). The book explores reports of urban protest and dissent in the cities of Egypt and Syria under the late Mamluk and early Ottoman regimes and analyzes both the historiography of protest and the intricacies of urban politics in the late medieval period. She is also the co-author, with Dalia Said Mostafa, of The Egyptian Coffeehouse: Culture, Politics and Urban Space (2020).
Co-sponsors: The Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Contact: Meryum Kazmi