Faculty Bulletin

Mona Abaza, Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, and Egyptology (SAPE) has published an article entitled “Walls, Segregating Downtown Cairo and the Mohamed Mahmud Street Graffiti,” Theory, Culture & Society, first posted online on October 9, 2012. The online version of the article can be read by clicking HERE.

Mona Abaza, Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, and Egyptology (SAPE) has published an article entitled “The Revolution’s Barometer” in the June 12 issue of Jadaliyya. The article can be read by clicking HERE.

Mona Abaza, Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, and Egyptology (SAPE), has published an article entitled “The Buraqs of ‘Tahrir’,” in Jadaliyya. To read the article, click HERE.

Mona Abaza, Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, and Egyptology (SAPE) published an article in Ahram Online on May 21 entitled “On whitening Egypt’s walls, time and again.” Click HERE to read the article.

Mona Abaza, Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, and Egyptology (SAPE) published an article entitled “Great Walls of Cairo: The Politics of Segregation,” in the May 2 edition of Ahram Online. The article can be read by clicking HERE.

Mona Abaza, Professor of Sociology in the Department of SAPE (and currently on leave as a visiting professor at the University of Lund, Sweden) has published the following book chapter:

Abaza, Mona, "harakaat ihtigag ghayr musayasa, in' itaaf jadid fil-thaqafa al-'aama fi misr." In Marquaz al dirassat lil wahda al-arabiyya, Sari Hanafi (ed.), (Beirut: Center for Arab Unity Studies, 2010.) Pages 175-204.

In English, the title of Mona's chapter would be "Protest Movements without Politics: A new Turn in Egypt´s Public Culture," and the English title of Hanafi's volume would be State of Exception and Resistance in The Arab World.

An Arabic langugage website for the project is available:

http://www.caus.org.lb/Home/publication_popup.php?ID=4315

Mona Abaza, Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, and Egyptology (SAPE) has published an article in an exhibit catalogue: 

"Speculations on the Future of Wist al-Balad (Down Town)," in The Long Short Cut, PhotoCairo4, An International Visual Arts Project in Downtown Cairo. 17 December 2008-14 Jan. 2009, Organised by the Contemporary Image Collective. 

The article is based on a lecture Professor Abaza gave at the Townhouse Gallery. She is currently on leave from AUC as a visiting professor at the University of Lund, Sweden.

Mona Abaza, Professor of Sociology in the Department of SAPE (and currently on leave as a visiting professor at the University of Lund, Sweden) has published a new book chapter:

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

The Bulletin wishes Mona a nice stay in Sweden, and a safe return to AUC, which she also attended as an undergraduate.