Sara Khorshid
Thesis Title
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Representations of the West in Egyptian Popular Culture: How Egyptians Imagined Themselves and the Foreign Other on Film During the Nasser Era
Supervisor
Second Reader
Main Research Interests
- Decolonization and post-colonialism in the 20th century; Egyptian and Middle Eastern history; cinema/popular culture and history; gender and women's history; Cold War history; 20th-century US history; transnational history; Arab-Western encounters
Publications
Select Op-Eds
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"Anti-Colonialism Doesn't Mean Ignoring Human Rights Abuses," Foreign Policy https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/02/22/egypt-sisi-colonialism-west-human-rights-democracy-global-order-activism/
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"What Trump’s Loss Means for Authoritarian Leaders," Foreign Policy https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/11/09/trump-loss-means-for-mbs-sisi-egypt-saudi-authoritarian-leaders/
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"The World Is Watching America’s Reaction to the George Floyd Protests," Foreign Policy https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/12/egypt-democracy-human-rights-the-world-is-watching-americas-reaction-to-the-george-floyd-protests/
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"Egypt’s New Police State," The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/17/opinion/egypts-new-police-state.html?_r=0
Book Chapter
- "Egypt: How the revolution has impacted the debate over minority rights and multiculturalism." In Multiculturalism and Democracy and North Africa: Aftermath of the Arab Spring, edited by Moha Ennaji, 223-245. New York: Routledge, 2014.
Conference Papers
- My Wife Is a General Director: Pop Culture and State Feminism in Nasser-Era Egypt,"paper presented at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, Nov. 2021.
- “The Open DoorFilm and Women in Post-1952 Egypt: State Feminism, Postcolonialism, and Women’s Voices,” paper presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, Oct. 2020.
- "The Paradoxes of the Copts' Rights Question in Post-Revolution Egypt." Paper presented at the Mediterranean Programme: 14th Mediterranean Research Meeting
(Workshop #12: Secularism and Minority Rights), Mersin, Turkey, March 2013.
