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Professor of Anthropology and Sociology
Mulki Al-Sharmani
1965
mulki.al-sharmani@helsinki.fi
mulki@aucegypt.edu
PhD, Department of Anthropology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA, 2005.
MA, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, The American University in Cairo, Egypt, 1998.
RSA Certificate for Overseas Teachers of English Royal Society of Arts and University of Cambridge, UK, 1992.
MA, Department of Teaching English as a Foreign Language, The American University in Cairo, Egypt, 1991.
BA, Department of English Language and Literature, Ain-Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, 1987.
Arabic
English
Somali
Islamic Feminism.
Egyptian family law, Islamic jurisprudence, and lived realities of marriage.
Somali Refugees in Cairo.
Women Refugees.
Violence against Street Children.
Docent in Study of Religions and Islamic Studies, Faculty of Theology, University of Helsinki. 2015 - Present.
Academy of Finland Research Fellow at Study of Religion Unit, Faculty of Theology, University of Helsinki, 2013-2018.
Adjunct Lecturer at Study of Religion Unit, Faculty of Theology, University of Helsinki, 2011-2013.
Research Fellow, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, 2010-2011.
Researcher, Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies, Neuchậtel University, Neuchậtel, Switzerland, 2005.
Men in Charge? Rethinking Authority in Muslim Legal Tradition. Co-editor (with Ziba Mir-Hosseini and Jana Rumminger). Oxford, UK: Oneworld, 2015.
Feminist Activism: Women's Rights and Legal Reform, Zed Books, 2013.
Gender Justice and Legal Reform in Egypt. The American University in Cairo Press, forthcoming.
Has tens of articles.
Academy of Finland Research Fellowship. 2013-2018.
Workshop Grant, Finnish Learned Societies. 2011.
Research Fellowship, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki. 2010-2011.
Research Grant, The Forced Migration and Refugee Studies Program, The American University in Cairo, 2002-2003.
