Zeinab Abul-Magd

Zeinab Abul-Magd is Professor of Middle Eastern history at Oberlin College and the American University in Cairo. She received her PhD in history and political economy and MA in Arab Studies from Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., and BA in political sciences from Cairo University, Egypt. Her forthcoming book on the Egyptian military institution is titled Militarizing the Nation: Army, Business, and Revolution in Egypt, 1952-2015 (New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming 2016). On a similar topic, she has co-edited Businessmen in Arms: How the Military and Other Armed Groups Profit in the MENA Region, co-editor with Elke Grawert (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, April 2016). Her first book is titled Imagined Empires: A History of Revolt in Egypt (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013), and it won MESA’s Roger Owen Book Award in 2015. She published articles at Foreign Policy, Carnegie Endowment, the Atlantic Council, Middle East Institute, and Jadaliyya. She published reports on the Egyptian military at several European think tanks, including BICC in Germany, CMI in Norway, IISS in London, and ISPI in Italy. Furthermore, she writes in Arabic occasional columns published in many Egyptian newspapers, including al-Masry al-Youm/Egypt Independent, al-Tahrir, and al-Manasa.