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History Hash Outs — The Gender of al-Riyada: Secular and Religious Bodies in Egypt and Beyond, 1820-1936.
History Department Conference Room 2144
AUC Avenue, P.O. Box 74, New Cairo, 11835, Egypt
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Join Wilson Chacko Jacob, Professor of History at Concordia University, as he explores how gender, leadership and bodily discipline shaped secular and religious spheres in Egypt from 1820 to 1936, offering insights into power and identity that resonate beyond this era.
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Wilson Chacko Jacob
Associate Professor of History
Concordia University, Montreal
Jacob joined Concordia's Department of History in 2006. He completed his Ph.D. in 2005 in the Departments of History and Middle East and Islamic Studies at New York University. After finishing a joint B.S./M.A. program in Arab Studies with a concentration in history at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in 1995, he spent two years traveling, teaching English, and studying in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Palestine, and Egypt. The research for his doctoral dissertation explored the intersections of gender, empire, and modernity in the Egyptian context. A revision of the award-winning dissertation resulted in his first book Working Out Egypt: Effendi Masculinity and Subject Formation in Colonial Modernity, 1870-1940 (Duke University Press; AUC Press, 2011).