Sherifa Zuhur (American University in Cairo)

Submitted: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 15:57:38 +0200

Sherifa Zuhur
Associate Professor 
Department of Arabic Studies
The American University in Cairo 
PO Box 251
Cairo, Egypt

Associate Professor of Women's Studies,
California State University, Sacramento
Sacramento, CA 95819      
USA
(on leave) not prest  from 7/98      

Phones: 202 357-6274 (office)      
        510-845-2802 (messages to forward from 6/98 on)  
email:  szuhur@acs.ac.eun.eg 

Description of work:

Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq,Turkey, etc. Islamic/Muslim fundamentalism and
women/gender all Middle East; national identity, national policies
post-1950 Mddle East and North Africa, neo-nationalism, nationa and
politics, nationalism and the arts;Middle Eastern music(20th century),
Druze of Syria, Lebanese Civil war and nationalism

Contemporary Egypt (SUNY 1992); Islam (Greehaven Press, 1995); n Contem
projected publication date, also articles on:  women's movems    ess, proje
(feminist, nationalist, and religious) in the Islamic wod, dress in the
Muslim world, sexuality, surrogateenting and reproductive technologies 
and Shariah, comparativestate and popular reactions to Islamism. 

Unpublished manuscript on the life of Asmahn (Amal al-Atrash), 
manuscript on US foreign policy in Iran;     
current manuscript development o: 1. neo-nationalism in the Middle East -
a text 2.  Modern IslamiMovements in the Middle East - a text