Sherine Hafez
Who Is She
Personal information
Associate Professor
Sherine Hafez
Contact information / Private
Languages
Arabic
English
Contact information / Work
University of California
Gender and Sexuality Studies
United States of America
Education
Ph.D., Anthropology, UC Davis, 2007.
M.A., Anthropology, American University in Cairo, 2001.
Competences
Women in Muslim Majority Societies and Cultures
Islamic Movements
Women’s Islamic Activism
Gender and Sexuality in Muslim Societies and Cultures
Work history
Jobs:
Associate Professor, Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of California, USA.
Sherine Hafez lectures on topics related to gender, Islamic movements, women’s Islamic activism and the uprisings in the Arab World.
Productions and works:
Co-Editor, Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa: Into the New Millennium. Indiana University Press, 2013.
An Islam of Her Own: Reconsidering Religion and Secularism in Women's Islamic Movements. New York University Press, 2011. Also published as a Middle East Version:The American University In Cairo Press, 2011.
The Terms of Empowerment: Islamic Women Activists in Egypt. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press. 2003.
Her articles have appeared in American Ethnologist; Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society; Feminist Review; Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies and Journal of North African Studies.
