Hanan Hammad
Mechanizing People, Localizing Modernity: Industrialization and Social Transformation in Modern Egypt
is currently an assistant professor of history at Texas Christian University, USA. She earned her Ph.D in Middle East History with a supporting field in Persian studies at the University of Texas at Austin in 2009. Her publications include the articles “Between Egyptian ‘National purity’ and ‘Local Flexibility’ Prostitution in al-Mahalla al-Kubra in the first half of the 20th century” and “From Fascination to Condemnation: Khomeini and the Iranian Revolution in the Egyptian Press”. Hammad also has a passion for Persian history and culture, which has resulted in several scholarly presentations and an Arabic translation of Moniro Ravanipour’s novel Ahl-e Gharq. She also holds a B.A. in Communication and Journalism from Cairo University, and, before coming to the world of academia, she worked as a journalist in Egyptian, Kuwaiti and American newspapers.
Mechanizing People, Localizing Modernity: Industrialization and Social Transformation in Modern Egypt
Hammad is currently writing a book manuscript tentatively entitled Mechanizing People, Localizing Modernity: Industrialization and Social Transformation in Modern Egypt. Based on archival sources which have not previously been consulted and oral history collected in the town of al-Mahalla al-Kubra, Mechanizing People examines how modern industry influenced the socio-economic and demographic growth of Egyptian society, affected the daily routine of ordinary people and changed their sense of time, concept of money, and consumption habits.
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