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    Ph.D., History and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University, 2014

    A.M., Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago, 2006

    B.A., Economics, American University in Cairo, 2004

    Publications

    (co-authored with Kathryn A. Schwartz) “A Printer’s Odd Plea to Reform Legal Pluralism in Khedival Egypt,” Past & Present 252 (2021): 179-211

    “A Prehistory of the Modern Legal Profession in Egypt, 1840s-1870s,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 50 (2018): 649-668

    “The Economy By Other Means: The Historiography of Capitalism in the Modern Middle East,” History Compass 16 (2018)

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