Mona Abaza: 2 books
The Cotton Plantation Remembered
An Egyptian Family Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Cotton made the fortune of the Fuda family, Egyptian landed gentry with peasant origins, during the second part of the nineteenth century. This story, narrated and photographed by a family member who has researched and documented various aspects of her own history, goes well beyond the family photo...
Debates on Islam and Knowledge in Malaysia and Egypt
Shifting Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This book is a comparative study of the sociological field in two different Muslim societies: Malaysia and Egypt. It analyses the process of the production of 'knowledge' through the example of the modern 'Islamization of knowledge debate' and local empirical variations.