Word: zeghal
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...Zeghal is expert on the postcolonial period of the Middle East and North Africa, as well as on Muslim Diasporas in North America and Western Europe...
...looking forward to learning from and contributing to the rigorous academic life at Harvard and to collaborating with some of the leading scholars of Islam and religion," Zeghal wrote. "I am eager to work with the students interested in Islam and politics and to use the extraordinary resources offered by Harvard...
Having earned her Ph.D. in political science and Middle Eastern studies from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris in 1994, Zeghal was a research fellow at France's Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique before joining the faculty at Chicago...
...Professor Zeghal's scholarship is grounded in her remarkable ability to win the trust and confidence of the Islamic religious actors about whom she writes," said Diana Sorensen, dean of arts and humanities in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, in the press release. "Her ethnographic approach, based on her interviews, fieldwork, and reconstruction of the biographies of key players in the Arab world, gives her work remarkable power...
...earlier version of the June 4 news article "Islam Scholar Malika Zeghal To Join NELC Dept." incorrectly stated that incoming Harvard professor Malika Zeghal's first book focused on the colonization of Egypt. In fact, the book focuses on the religious institution of al-Azhar University in Egypt, according to Zeghal...