Experiencing Cairo: A Glimpse into an American Scholar’s Daily Life
About two weeks before I left Egypt last July, Fulbright Egypt asked if I would be interested in doing a video showing a day in the life of an American scholar.
Undergraduate Survival Guide: How to Read an Academic Article or Book
An academic article or book isn’t the same as a textbook or newspaper article. If you’ve ever struggled to see the point (or felt like a deer in headlines when a professor asked what you thought), keep reading!
New Publication Alert!
In my new article, I go back to the incident that started me down the whole history of medicine track in the first place: the cholera outbreak of 1883 in Egypt.
Ramadan in Egypt, Pt 2
Sitting down to write this while Ramadan is still going on. In fact, this week is a holiday triple-header: Today, Sunday, April 16, is Coptic Easter. Tomorrow is Sham Al-Naseem, the traditional Egyptian spring festival, and Thursday is the first day of Eid al-Fitr, the “feast of the breaking of the fast” which ends Ramadan.…
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About Me
Social Historian of Medicine in the Middle East. Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. Founder and former co-host of the podcast 15 Minute History. Gay. Married. Polyglot. Foodie. Traveler. Photographer. Bon vivant.
Usually in bed by 10.
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