Mona Abaza
Biographic Data
| ID | 220617 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mona Abaza |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mona |
| FAMILY NAME | Abaza |
| SIGNATURE | ABAZA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University in Cairo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8279-5796 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 172 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Nile Delta: Histories from Antiquity to the Modern Period
This is the first volume on the history of the Nile Delta to cover the c.7000 years from the Predynastic period to the twentieth century. It offers a multidisciplinary approach engaging with varied aspects of the region's long, complex, yet still underappreciated history. Readers will learn of the history of settlement, agriculture and the management of water resources at different periods and in different places, as well as the naming and mappin…
Cairo: Restoration? And the Limits of Street Politics
In this piece, I argue that the city of Cairo has witnessed unprecedented urban transformations for the past 4 years, owing to urban wars and confrontations during the two regimes that followed Mubarak’s ouster. Street politics, although mesmerizing, have been highly exhausting. With the reemergence of the army in civil life, after the ousting of President Morsi, street activism is becoming hazardous and highly costly in terms of human life. Whet…
Public space in Cairo: Dubai contra Tahrir
Violence, Dramaturgical Repertoires and Neoliberal Imaginaries in Cairo
This article reflects upon the monopoly and repertoires of violence in the city of Cairo perpetrated in counter-revolutionary moments by the successive military and Islamist regimes, which lack alternative visions and imaginaries. It counters the myth that the Egyptian revolution was non-violent. It also reflects upon some of the debates about the Arab revolutions, the question of militarization, and the return of 'order' with the re-emergence of…
Post January Revolution Cairo: Urban Wars and the Reshaping of Public Space
The metropolis of Cairo has witnessed unprecedented transformations since the January revolution of 2011. It witnessed evidently an escalation of war zones and confrontations between protesters and police forces; it also witnessed the militarization and policing of the urban sphere, the creation of segregating buffer walls that paralysed entire areas. However, the Tahrir effect remains evident in that it revolutionized the very notion of what a p…
Walls, Segregating Downtown Cairo and the Mohammed Mahmud Street Graffiti
This article explores the recent urban transformations of downtown Cairo, in particular around the area of Mohammed Mahmud Street and Tahrir Square, after a year and a half of violent confrontations between the protesters and the military junta. The article first looks at how these confrontations led to the segregation of the city through the use of buffer-concrete walls, army tanks, check-points and barbed-wire barricades that made life for its …
Critical Commentary. Cairo’s Downtown Imagined: Dubaisation or Nostalgia
The Expanding and Controversial Role of Al-Azhar in Southeast Asia
The reason for quoting at length from a critical review of the recently released (in March 2008) Indonesian film Ayat Ayat Cinta (Verses of Love) is to expose the reality behind the much embellished popular image of the Indonesian Azharite whose sojourn in the Middle East not only helps him find »true« Islam but, more importantly, romance and adventure. Fahri, the main character, has several qualities typical of many Southeast Asian Azharites liv…
The Trafficking with Tanwir (Enlightenment)
This article looks at how the discourse of tanwir (enlightenment) has been used, appropriated, and recycled in multiple milieus ranging from state discourse and the secular intellectuals in the process of co-option by the state to the Islamists and the nationalists. Precisely when the government has been trying to sell for the Western “democratic” and free world an image of a civilized “enlightened” government, combating its “dark” opponents, it …
'Ada /Custom in the Middle East and Southeast Asia
Shifting Landscapes of Fashion in Contemporary Egypt
This article traces various emerging trends in the Egyptian fashion industry in relation to changing lifestyles in Egypt. It focuses in particular on the emergence and coexistence of different local fashion genres, namely “Islamic chic,” locally produced Western “chic,” and so-called “ethnic chic,” all of which have come into existence next to imported Western fashions, which have a long tradition in Egypt. These new trends can be interpreted as …
More on the Shifting Worlds of Islam. The Middle East and Southeast Asia: A Troubled Relationship
The Changing Consumer Cultures of Modern Egypt: Cairo's Urban Reshaping
This book consists of a collage of images that attempts to convey the transformation of consumer culture and how it is related to the urban reshaping of the city of Cairo to meet with the demands of globalisation. Analyzing the shift from socialist economy to the opening up of Egypt’s economy, and how this has affected everyday life of the middle classes, the author touches on various themes such as the general changing lifestyles and conspicuous…
Creating the New Egyptian Woman: Consumerism, Education and National Identity 1863–1922 by Mona L. Russell
Book Review| July 01 2006 Creating the New Egyptian Woman: Consumerism, Education and National Identity 1863–1922 by Mona L. Russell Russell, Mona L., Creating the New Egyptian Woman: Consumerism, Education and National Identity 1863–1922. Palgrave, Macmillan, 2004. Mona Abaza Mona Abaza American University of Cairo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 149–152. https://doi…
Markets of Faith: Jakartan Da'wa and Islamic Gentrification
Mona Abaza Depuis les événements du 1 1 Septembre, les médias concentrent leur attention sur la communauté arabe indonésienne, du fait que Bin Laden est d'origine Hadrami. La communauté arabe doit faire face à des généralisations, des clichés et des pressions, parce que bon nombre de dirigeants de groupes islamistes militants vantent leurs origines arabes. Ceci incite à une méfiance pour tout ce qui est de provenance ou de culture arabe. Pourtant…
Indonesian Azharites, Fifteen Years Later
This short note is a nostalgic return to the places where the Indonesian students in Cairo resided and studied. It hints at the significant change in the space and the ongoing transformation of the Indonesian student community in Cairo
Two Intellectuals: The Malaysian S.N. Al-Attas and the Egyptian Mohammed 'Immara, and the Islamization of Knowledge Debate
Shopping Malls, Consumer Culture and the Reshaping of Public Space in Egypt
Egypt witnessed in the last decade, as in many Southeast Asian mega-cities, the reshaping of public space through the creation of new shopping malls and recreation places. This went hand in hand with the 'gentrification' of certain areas of the city of Cairo, which is continuing at the expense of pushing away the poor. The 1980s and 1990s also witnessed increasing prosperity among certain classes and the appropriation of new consumer lifestyles. …
A Note On Henry Corbin and Seyyed Hossein Nasr: Affinities and Differences
A: Reviews: general
BETWEEN MARRIAGE AND THE MARKET: INTIMATE POLITICS AND SURVIVAL IN CAIRO. By Homa Hoodfar. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, University of California Press, 1997. xviii, 302 pp
Intellectuals, Power and Islam in Malaysia: S.N. al-Attas or the Beacon on the Crest of a Hill
Abaza Mona. Intellectuals, Power and Islam in Malaysia : S.N. al-Attas or the Beacon on the Crest of a Hill. In: Archipel, volume 58, 1999. L'horizon nousantarien. Mélanges en hommage à Denys Lombard (Volume III) pp. 189-217
A Mosque of Arab origin in Singapore: History, Functions and Networks
Mona Abaza This paper attempt to draw a close picture on an Arab origin mosque in Singapore, the Ba'alawi mosque. It attempts to bring detailed material on the physical and social setting of the mosque to reveal the networks with the Middle East and the cosmopolitanism of its Imam. This paper will briefly highlight the history of the Arabs and this mosque. It will moreover focus on everyday activities of the mosque and upon the hawl (the commemor…
A Profile of an Indonesian Azhari Living in Cairo
Abaza Mona. A Profile of an Indonesian Azhari Living in Cairo. In: Archipel, volume 52, 1996. pp. 31-44
Changing Images of Three Generations of Azharites in Indonesia
The focus will be on three different generations of Indonesian scholars and 'Ulama who have studied in Cairo, and in Al-Azhar in particular. Three different periods will be discussed: the colonial times when Islamic Reformism had a great impact and reactivated scholarship in the Middle East and the world of Southeast Asia; the immediate post-colonial period when Azharites played a paramount role in state functions; and the seventies and eighties …
Some Reflections on the Question of Islam and Social Sciences in the Contemporary Muslim World
Shopping Malls, Consumer Culture and the Reshaping of Public Space in Egypt
Egypt witnessed in the last decade, as in many Southeast Asian mega-cities, the reshaping of public space through the creation of new shopping malls and recreation places. This went hand in hand with the 'gentrification' of certain areas of the city of Cairo, which is continuing at the expense of pushing away the poor. The 1980s and 1990s also witnessed increasing prosperity among certain classes and the appropriation of new consumer lifestyles. …
Walls, Segregating Downtown Cairo and the Mohammed Mahmud Street Graffiti
This article explores the recent urban transformations of downtown Cairo, in particular around the area of Mohammed Mahmud Street and Tahrir Square, after a year and a half of violent confrontations between the protesters and the military junta. The article first looks at how these confrontations led to the segregation of the city through the use of buffer-concrete walls, army tanks, check-points and barbed-wire barricades that made life for its …
Post January Revolution Cairo: Urban Wars and the Reshaping of Public Space
The metropolis of Cairo has witnessed unprecedented transformations since the January revolution of 2011. It witnessed evidently an escalation of war zones and confrontations between protesters and police forces; it also witnessed the militarization and policing of the urban sphere, the creation of segregating buffer walls that paralysed entire areas. However, the Tahrir effect remains evident in that it revolutionized the very notion of what a p…
Shifting Landscapes of Fashion in Contemporary Egypt
This article traces various emerging trends in the Egyptian fashion industry in relation to changing lifestyles in Egypt. It focuses in particular on the emergence and coexistence of different local fashion genres, namely “Islamic chic,” locally produced Western “chic,” and so-called “ethnic chic,” all of which have come into existence next to imported Western fashions, which have a long tradition in Egypt. These new trends can be interpreted as …
Markets of Faith: Jakartan Da'wa and Islamic Gentrification
Mona Abaza Depuis les événements du 1 1 Septembre, les médias concentrent leur attention sur la communauté arabe indonésienne, du fait que Bin Laden est d'origine Hadrami. La communauté arabe doit faire face à des généralisations, des clichés et des pressions, parce que bon nombre de dirigeants de groupes islamistes militants vantent leurs origines arabes. Ceci incite à une méfiance pour tout ce qui est de provenance ou de culture arabe. Pourtant…
Cairo: Restoration? And the Limits of Street Politics
In this piece, I argue that the city of Cairo has witnessed unprecedented urban transformations for the past 4 years, owing to urban wars and confrontations during the two regimes that followed Mubarak’s ouster. Street politics, although mesmerizing, have been highly exhausting. With the reemergence of the army in civil life, after the ousting of President Morsi, street activism is becoming hazardous and highly costly in terms of human life. Whet…
Violence, Dramaturgical Repertoires and Neoliberal Imaginaries in Cairo
This article reflects upon the monopoly and repertoires of violence in the city of Cairo perpetrated in counter-revolutionary moments by the successive military and Islamist regimes, which lack alternative visions and imaginaries. It counters the myth that the Egyptian revolution was non-violent. It also reflects upon some of the debates about the Arab revolutions, the question of militarization, and the return of 'order' with the re-emergence of…
More on the Shifting Worlds of Islam. The Middle East and Southeast Asia: A Troubled Relationship
The Trafficking with Tanwir (Enlightenment)
This article looks at how the discourse of tanwir (enlightenment) has been used, appropriated, and recycled in multiple milieus ranging from state discourse and the secular intellectuals in the process of co-option by the state to the Islamists and the nationalists. Precisely when the government has been trying to sell for the Western “democratic” and free world an image of a civilized “enlightened” government, combating its “dark” opponents, it …
Occidental Reason, Orientalism, Islamic Fundamentalism: A Critique
Western cultural anthropology, sociological and feminist perspectives on development have been adopting an essentialist standpoint. The question, what do natives really mean?, how do they internally perceive themselves?, has become a major concern in Third World sociological and anthropological studies. On the other hand, social scientists in the Third World, and specifically in Arab countries, have called for the 'indigenisation' of the social s…
Critical Commentary. Cairo’s Downtown Imagined: Dubaisation or Nostalgia
Some Reflections on the Question of Islam and Social Sciences in the Contemporary Muslim World
The Discourse on Islamic Fundamentalism in the Middle East and Southeast Asia: A Critical Perspective
This paper provides a critical perspective on the discourse produced about Islamic fundamentalism with reference to the Middle East and Southeast Asia. It surveys existing studies on Islamic fundamentalism and attempts to argue that many of the advocations promoted by the fundamentalists bear a strong similarity with traditional Orientalist discourse about Islam. It also attempts to tackle the problem from a global perspective, in which modernity…
Indonesian Azharites, Fifteen Years Later
This short note is a nostalgic return to the places where the Indonesian students in Cairo resided and studied. It hints at the significant change in the space and the ongoing transformation of the Indonesian student community in Cairo
Creating the New Egyptian Woman: Consumerism, Education and National Identity 1863–1922 by Mona L. Russell
Book Review| July 01 2006 Creating the New Egyptian Woman: Consumerism, Education and National Identity 1863–1922 by Mona L. Russell Russell, Mona L., Creating the New Egyptian Woman: Consumerism, Education and National Identity 1863–1922. Palgrave, Macmillan, 2004. Mona Abaza Mona Abaza American University of Cairo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 149–152. https://doi…
A Note On Henry Corbin and Seyyed Hossein Nasr: Affinities and Differences
Intellectuals, Power and Islam in Malaysia: S.N. al-Attas or the Beacon on the Crest of a Hill
Abaza Mona. Intellectuals, Power and Islam in Malaysia : S.N. al-Attas or the Beacon on the Crest of a Hill. In: Archipel, volume 58, 1999. L'horizon nousantarien. Mélanges en hommage à Denys Lombard (Volume III) pp. 189-217
B - Cairo: Personal Reflections on Enduring Daily Life
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Occidental Reason, Orientalism, Islamic Fundamentalism: A Critique
Western cultural anthropology, sociological and feminist perspectives on development have been adopting an essentialist standpoint. The question, what do natives really mean?, how do they internally perceive themselves?, has become a major concern in Third World sociological and anthropological studies. On the other hand, social scientists in the Third World, and specifically in Arab countries, have called for the 'indigenisation' of the social s…
Some Research Notes on Living Conditions and Perceptions Among Indonesian Students in Cairo
In recent years, North-South patterns of domination and neo-colonialism have occupied the field of social studies. One can argue that theories of modernization such as Lerner's The Passing of Traditional Society bear a certain similarity with dependency theories. Although these later writers formed their theories as a critique of modernizing theories, both perspectives are similar in that they analyze “traditional” or underdeveloped societies fro…
The Discourse on Islamic Fundamentalism in the Middle East and Southeast Asia: A Critical Perspective
This paper provides a critical perspective on the discourse produced about Islamic fundamentalism with reference to the Middle East and Southeast Asia. It surveys existing studies on Islamic fundamentalism and attempts to argue that many of the advocations promoted by the fundamentalists bear a strong similarity with traditional Orientalist discourse about Islam. It also attempts to tackle the problem from a global perspective, in which modernity…
Changing Images of Three Generations of Azharites in Indonesia
The focus will be on three different generations of Indonesian scholars and 'Ulama who have studied in Cairo, and in Al-Azhar in particular. Three different periods will be discussed: the colonial times when Islamic Reformism had a great impact and reactivated scholarship in the Middle East and the world of Southeast Asia; the immediate post-colonial period when Azharites played a paramount role in state functions; and the seventies and eighties …
Some Reflections on the Question of Islam and Social Sciences in the Contemporary Muslim World
A Profile of an Indonesian Azhari Living in Cairo
Abaza Mona. A Profile of an Indonesian Azhari Living in Cairo. In: Archipel, volume 52, 1996. pp. 31-44
A Mosque of Arab origin in Singapore: History, Functions and Networks
Mona Abaza This paper attempt to draw a close picture on an Arab origin mosque in Singapore, the Ba'alawi mosque. It attempts to bring detailed material on the physical and social setting of the mosque to reveal the networks with the Middle East and the cosmopolitanism of its Imam. This paper will briefly highlight the history of the Arabs and this mosque. It will moreover focus on everyday activities of the mosque and upon the hawl (the commemor…
A: Reviews: general
BETWEEN MARRIAGE AND THE MARKET: INTIMATE POLITICS AND SURVIVAL IN CAIRO. By Homa Hoodfar. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, University of California Press, 1997. xviii, 302 pp
Intellectuals, Power and Islam in Malaysia: S.N. al-Attas or the Beacon on the Crest of a Hill
Abaza Mona. Intellectuals, Power and Islam in Malaysia : S.N. al-Attas or the Beacon on the Crest of a Hill. In: Archipel, volume 58, 1999. L'horizon nousantarien. Mélanges en hommage à Denys Lombard (Volume III) pp. 189-217
A Note On Henry Corbin and Seyyed Hossein Nasr: Affinities and Differences
Shopping Malls, Consumer Culture and the Reshaping of Public Space in Egypt
Egypt witnessed in the last decade, as in many Southeast Asian mega-cities, the reshaping of public space through the creation of new shopping malls and recreation places. This went hand in hand with the 'gentrification' of certain areas of the city of Cairo, which is continuing at the expense of pushing away the poor. The 1980s and 1990s also witnessed increasing prosperity among certain classes and the appropriation of new consumer lifestyles. …
Two Intellectuals: The Malaysian S.N. Al-Attas and the Egyptian Mohammed 'Immara, and the Islamization of Knowledge Debate
Indonesian Azharites, Fifteen Years Later
This short note is a nostalgic return to the places where the Indonesian students in Cairo resided and studied. It hints at the significant change in the space and the ongoing transformation of the Indonesian student community in Cairo
Markets of Faith: Jakartan Da'wa and Islamic Gentrification
Mona Abaza Depuis les événements du 1 1 Septembre, les médias concentrent leur attention sur la communauté arabe indonésienne, du fait que Bin Laden est d'origine Hadrami. La communauté arabe doit faire face à des généralisations, des clichés et des pressions, parce que bon nombre de dirigeants de groupes islamistes militants vantent leurs origines arabes. Ceci incite à une méfiance pour tout ce qui est de provenance ou de culture arabe. Pourtant…
The Changing Consumer Cultures of Modern Egypt: Cairo's Urban Reshaping
This book consists of a collage of images that attempts to convey the transformation of consumer culture and how it is related to the urban reshaping of the city of Cairo to meet with the demands of globalisation. Analyzing the shift from socialist economy to the opening up of Egypt’s economy, and how this has affected everyday life of the middle classes, the author touches on various themes such as the general changing lifestyles and conspicuous…
Creating the New Egyptian Woman: Consumerism, Education and National Identity 1863–1922 by Mona L. Russell
Book Review| July 01 2006 Creating the New Egyptian Woman: Consumerism, Education and National Identity 1863–1922 by Mona L. Russell Russell, Mona L., Creating the New Egyptian Woman: Consumerism, Education and National Identity 1863–1922. Palgrave, Macmillan, 2004. Mona Abaza Mona Abaza American University of Cairo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 149–152. https://doi…
Shifting Landscapes of Fashion in Contemporary Egypt
This article traces various emerging trends in the Egyptian fashion industry in relation to changing lifestyles in Egypt. It focuses in particular on the emergence and coexistence of different local fashion genres, namely “Islamic chic,” locally produced Western “chic,” and so-called “ethnic chic,” all of which have come into existence next to imported Western fashions, which have a long tradition in Egypt. These new trends can be interpreted as …
More on the Shifting Worlds of Islam. The Middle East and Southeast Asia: A Troubled Relationship
'Ada /Custom in the Middle East and Southeast Asia
The Expanding and Controversial Role of Al-Azhar in Southeast Asia
The reason for quoting at length from a critical review of the recently released (in March 2008) Indonesian film Ayat Ayat Cinta (Verses of Love) is to expose the reality behind the much embellished popular image of the Indonesian Azharite whose sojourn in the Middle East not only helps him find »true« Islam but, more importantly, romance and adventure. Fahri, the main character, has several qualities typical of many Southeast Asian Azharites liv…
The Trafficking with Tanwir (Enlightenment)
This article looks at how the discourse of tanwir (enlightenment) has been used, appropriated, and recycled in multiple milieus ranging from state discourse and the secular intellectuals in the process of co-option by the state to the Islamists and the nationalists. Precisely when the government has been trying to sell for the Western “democratic” and free world an image of a civilized “enlightened” government, combating its “dark” opponents, it …
Critical Commentary. Cairo’s Downtown Imagined: Dubaisation or Nostalgia
Walls, Segregating Downtown Cairo and the Mohammed Mahmud Street Graffiti
This article explores the recent urban transformations of downtown Cairo, in particular around the area of Mohammed Mahmud Street and Tahrir Square, after a year and a half of violent confrontations between the protesters and the military junta. The article first looks at how these confrontations led to the segregation of the city through the use of buffer-concrete walls, army tanks, check-points and barbed-wire barricades that made life for its …
Post January Revolution Cairo: Urban Wars and the Reshaping of Public Space
The metropolis of Cairo has witnessed unprecedented transformations since the January revolution of 2011. It witnessed evidently an escalation of war zones and confrontations between protesters and police forces; it also witnessed the militarization and policing of the urban sphere, the creation of segregating buffer walls that paralysed entire areas. However, the Tahrir effect remains evident in that it revolutionized the very notion of what a p…
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