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Professor of Arab and Islamic Civilizations
Nelly Hanna
The American University in Cairo
Arab and Islamic Civilizations
Prince Alwaleed Bin Tala Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Hall, New Cairo Campus
Cairo
Egypt
+2 0226151772
nhanna@aucegypt.eduArabic
PhD, University of Aix en Provence.
Arabic
English
French
Economic History
Middle class housing in 17th and 18th Century Cairo
Ottoman History of the Arab world
Urban History
Professor and Chair of the Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations, The American University in Cairo, 1991-Present.
Visiting Professor, Waseda University, Tokyo, 2008-2009.
Visiting Professor, Harvard University, 2001.
Visiting Professor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 1998.
In Praise of Books, a Cultural History of Cairo’s Middle Class 16-18th centuries. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2003.
Making Big Money in 1600: The Life and Times of Isma`il Abu Taqiyya, Egyptian Merchant. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1998.
Habiter au Caire: La Maison Moyenne et ses Habitants aux XVIIe et XVIIIe Siecles. Cairo, 1991.
