Sara Khorshid

Thesis Title

• Good Guys, Good Girls, and Villains in Nasserist Cinema: Egyptians' Postcolonial Representations of the (Foreign) Other During the Cold War

Supervisor

• Prof. Aldona Sendzikas

Second Reader

• Prof. Paul Sedra 

Main Research Interests

• Modern Middle Eastern history; Modern and 20th-century Egyptian history; Nasser-era Egypt; Egyptian Cinema/Popular Culture and History from Below; Egyptian Women’s, Gender, and Feminist Histories; Anticolonialism and Postcoloniality; Nasserism and Global Decolonization and Protest Movements; Decolonization and the Arab Cold War;  Arab-Western Encounters;  20th-Century US History;  Transnational Histories; Gender During the Cold War; The Cultural History of the Cold War; Postcolonial Popular Culture and History

Publications
Select Op-Eds

• "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/ 
  

• "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/ 

• "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/
  

• "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.

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