Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid-Marsot
Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid-Marsot (born 1933) is an Egyptian-born historian, professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, who has written on the history of Egypt since the eighteenth century.[1]
Life
Born in
Oxford University studying with Albert Hourani in 1963. She was the first Egyptian woman to earn a doctoral degree from Oxford University. She became professor in history at UCLA in 1968. She married Alain Marsot, also an academic and professor of political science.[1]
Dr. al-Sayyid Marsot held various visiting positions and was awarded academic honors including:
- Distinguished Visiting Professor at the American University, Cairo, 1976
-George Antonius Distinguished Lecture, St. Antony's College, Oxford, 1980
-Distinguished Lecturer at Georgetown University, 1988
-Woman of the Year Award by the Arab- American Press Guild, Los Angeles, 1988
-Arab-American Muslim Achievement Award, Los Angeles, 1992
-Middle East Studies Association Mentoring Award, 2000
-Doctor of Humane Letters conferred by the American University in Cairo, 2001
-Distinguished Visiting Professor at the American University, Cairo 2009[2]
Works
- Egypt and Cromer: a study in Anglo-Egyptian relations, 1968
- Egypt's liberal experiment, 1922-1936, 1977
- Society and the sexes in medieval Islam, 1979
- Egypt in the reign of Muhammed Ali, 1983
- Protest movements and religious undercurrents in Egypt, past and present, 1984
- A short history of modern Egypt, 1985
- Women and men in late eighteenth-century Egypt, 1995
- A history of Egypt: from the Arab conquest to the present, 2007
References
- ^ a b Interview with Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot, The Historian, Vol. 54, Issue 2 (1992), pp. 225-42.
- ^ http://www.aucegypt.edu/alumni/chapters/.../ProfileDrAfafMarsot.doc[permanent dead link]
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