Events
Mar 29, 2024
CMES Friday Lecture with Omnia El Shakry: “Psychoanalysis and the Calligraphy of Invention”
Omnia El Shakry is professor of History at Yale University. She specializes in the intellectual and cultural history of the modern Middle East, with a particular emphasis on the history of the human and religious sciences in modern Egypt. El Shakry is the author of The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt and The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt. She is also the editor of Understanding and Teaching the Modern Middle East and Gender and Sexuality in Islam. Prior to Yale, she taught in the History Department at the University of California, Davis.