Amira Sonbol

صورة
Organizations: Universities
Professions: Educator

PERSONAL INFORMATION


Professor of History

Amira Sonbol

CONTACT INFORMATION / WORK


Georgetown University

School of Foreign Service - Qatar

PO Box 23689

A 102B LAS Building

Doha

Qatar

+974-4457-8293

sonbola@georgetown.edu

Education


Ph.D., History, Georgetown University.

MA, Arabic and Islamic Studies, American University in Cairo.

languages


Arabic

English

COMPETENCES


History of Modern Egypt

Islamic History and Law

Women, Gender and Islam

WORK HISTORY


Professor of History, Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service.

Editor-in-Chief, Hawwa: the Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World.

Co-Editor, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations.

Honorary office and memberships


Member, Board of Directors, Women and Memory Forum.

Productions and Works


The New Mamluks: Egyptian Society and Modern Feudalism. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2001.

Women, the Family and Divorce Laws in Islamic History. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1996.

The Creation of a Medical Profession in Egypt: 1800-1922. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1991.

Women of the Jordan: Islam, Labor and Law. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2002.