Mona Abaza

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Mona Abaza (* 1959 in Ash-Sharqiyyah Governorate ) is an Egyptian sociologist .

Life

Abaza graduated from the American University in Cairo (AUC) with a BA in Political Science in 1982 and received a Masters in Sociology from the University of Durham in 1986 . In 1990 she completed her doctorate at Bielefeld University. 1990–1992 she was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore.

She was a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin from 1996–1997 and had lectureships and study visits to Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, France (EHESS, 1996) and the Netherlands, 2001–2002, IIAS The International Institute for Asian Studies, and 2006–2007 Fellow , The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, NIAS, Wassenaar. In 2005 she conducted research on “Changes in Consumer Culture” at the Rockefeller Foundation Institute in Bellagio. From 2009–2011 she was visiting professor in the theological faculty at Lund University. 2014 Research Fellow, Morphomata, Cologne. Abaza is a sociology professor at AUC and was chair of department from 2007 to 2009.

Thanks to her academic work and her multilingualism, Abaza is a point of contact for European scientists and journalists when assessing the social processes in the Arab Revolution .

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Monographs

  • Twentieth-century Egyptian art: the private collection of Sherwet Shafei , Cairo; New York: American University in Cairo Press, 2011.
  • Changing consumer cultures of modern Egypt: Cairo's urban reshaping , Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2006
  • Debates on Islam and knowledge in Malaysia and Egypt: shifting worlds , Taylor & Francis, 2002
  • Islamic education, perceptions and exchanges , Paris, Cahier d'Archipel, 1994
  • Changing images of three generations of Azharites in Indonesia , Pasir Panjang, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1993
  • Indonesian students in Cairo: Islamic education, perceptions and exchanges , Paris: Association Archipel, 1994. Diss. Univ. Bielefeld 1990
  • The changing image of women in rural Egypt , Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1987
  • The Cotton Plantation Remembered , Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2013. ISBN 978-977-416-571-9
  • Cairo Collages, Every Day Life Practices After the Event , Manchester University Press, 2020

Selected articles and chapter contributions

“Perceptions of Middle Eastern Islam in Southeast Asia and Islamic Revivalism”. The Orient, March 1994, pp. 107-124.

“A Preliminary Note on the Impact of External Islamic Trends in Malaysia”. International Asia Forum, Vol. 25, 1994, No. 1-2, p. 149-165.

“Islam in South-east Asia: Varying Impact and images of the Middle East”. in: Islam, Muslims and the Modern State, Case Studies of Muslims in Thirteen Countries, ed. Hussin Mutalib and Taj ul-Islam Hashimi. The Macmillan Press, 1994. pp. 139-151.

“A Profile of an Indonesian Azhari Living in Cairo”, in: Archipel, Paris. 1996.pp, 31-44.

“An Arab Origin Mosque in Singapore”, Archipel, Paris, 1997, pp. 61-84.

“Civil Society and Islam in Egypt: The Case of Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd Case in Egypt”. The Journal of Islamic and Arabic Studies, Australia. Vol. 2, No. 2, 1995, pp. 29

“Southeast Asia and the Middle East: al-Manar and Islamic Modernity” in: From The Mediterranean To the China Sea. Edited by Claude Guillot, Denys Lombard and Roderich Ptak, Harrassowitz Verlag. Wiesbaden 1998. pp. 93-113. “Southeast Asia and the Middle East”. in: Southeast Asia Handbook, editor. F. Ptak and B Dahm, Beck Verlag. 1999, pp. 357-364.

“Shifting Landscapes of fashion in Contemporary Egypt”. In: Fashion Theory. Vol 11, 2-3. (April 2007) pp 281-297.

Mohammad Asad Shahab: Indonesian Arabic Writing ”Edited Volume By Eric Tagliacozzo. Southeast Asia and the Middle East: Islam, Movement and the Longue Durée, National University of Singapore, 2009.

"'Adat / Custom in the Middle East and Southeast Asia" in: Words in Motion, Towards A Global Lexicon; Edited by Carol Gluck and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Duke University Press, Durban and London, 2009, pp. 67-82.

"Social Sciences in Egypt Swinging Pendulum: Commodification and (or) the Criminalization of a Field?" Editor Michael Burawoy in: Facing an Unequal World: Challenges For a Global Sociology, Conference Proceedings of the 2009 Conference of the Council of National Associations of International Sociological Associations (ISA), Taipei, 2009.

“The Trafficking with Tanwir (Enlightenment)”, acts of the Conference convened by Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College Titled: Transnational Migrations of Identity: Jews, Muslims and the Modernity Debate. Published in Comparative Studies on South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Vol. 30, No. 1, 2010.

“Asia Imagined by the Arabs”, in: Islamic Studies and Islamic Education in Contemporary Southeast Asia, Editors: Kamaruzzaman Bustamam-Ahmad and Patrick Jory, Yayasan Ilmuwan, Kuala Lumpur, 2011, pp. 1-29.

“Downtown Cairo Imagined: Nostalgia and / Or Dubaization? "Urban Studies, May 2011.

"Cyberspace and the Changing Face of Protest and Public Culture in Egypt" In: Democratic Transition in the Middle East, Unmaking Power. Edited by Larbi Sadiki, Heiko Wimmen, Layla Al Zubaidi, Routledge 2013, pp. 87-107.

“The Motahajiba in Cairo, Inter-Arab Islamic Chic, Adaptations, Hybridity and Globalization” In: Fusion Fashion, Culture beyond Orientalism. ed.Gertrud Lehnert / Gabriele Mentges, Peter Lang, Frankfurt Main, 2013.

“Walls, Segregating Downtown Cairo and the Mohammed Mahmud Street Graffiti”, Theory, Culture and Society, October 9, 2012.

“Cairo Dairy: Space-Wars, Public Visibility and The Transformation of Public Space in Post-Revolutionary Egypt In Public Space”, in: Public Space, Media Space, edited Chris Berry, Janet Harbord, Rachel Moore, Palgrave MacMillan, 2013, p -88-109.

“Post January Revolution Cairo: Urban Wars and the Reshaping of Public Space”, Theory, Culture and Society, online on September 30, 2014 doi : 10.1177 / 0263276414549264 .

“Graffiti and the Reshaping of Public Space in Cairo: Tensions between Political Struggles and Commercialization” in: Grafficity, in Visual Practices and Contestations in Urban Space, edited by Eva Youkhana and Larissa Förster, Morphomata, Volume 28, Wilhelm Fink, 2015.

“Public space in Cairo: Dubai versus Tahrir” in Contemporary Political Theory (2016) 15, 427–435. doi: 10.1057 / s41296-016-0012-z ; published online 30 June 2016.

“Repetitive Repertoires: How Writing about Cairene Graffiti has turned into a serial Monotony” in: Graffiti and Street Art, Reading Writing and Representing the City. edited by Konstantinos Avramidis and Myrto Tsilimpounidi, Routledge, 2017.

Cairo, Personal Reflections on Enduring Daily Life, Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies • 16 (2016), pp. 234-252.

“Cairo: Restoration and the Limits of Street Politics”, Space and Culture 1–21, 2017, journals.sagepub.com/home/sac

“Cairo After the Event: Fiction and Everyday Life” A commemorative publication for Reinhard Schulze, edited by Florain Zemmin, Johanes Stephan, Monica Corrado, Anke Von Kugelgen, Brill, Leiden. 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The place of birth “Sharquia, Egypt” is taken from the biographical information on muslimreviewonline (en), it cannot be verified in this spelling. The place of origin suggests a family connection to the Abaza clan , who economically dominated the Sharquia region. See also the English language Wikipedia : Abaza family
  2. ↑ Sherwet Shafei Talks About Her Love for Egyptian Art at AUC-Press, May 2012
personal data
SURNAME Abaza, Mona
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Ash-Sharqiyya (Governorate) , Egypt