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Dina R. Khoury

Associate Professor of History and International Affairs

1957 E Street, NW Suite 512

Washington, D.C. 20052

Phone: (202) 994-6239
Fax: (202) 994-5477
E-mail: dikhy@gwu.edu

Education:

Ph.D., Georgetown University

Expertise:

History of the Middle East

Background:

Professor Khoury received her Ph.D. in Middle East history from Georgetown University. Before joining the GW history department in 1991, she taught at Georgetown University and was the recipient of a Social Science Research Council grant for two consecutive years. More recently, Professor Khoury has received a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment of the Humanities. Professor Khoury offers courses in Islamic and modern Middle Eastern history. She studies the political culture of the Arab world during the Ottoman period. Her principal publications include: "Political Relations between State and Urban Society: 1750-1850", in Peter Sluglett, ed., Urban Social History in the Middle East (Westview Press, 2001); State and Provincial Society in the Ottoman Empire (1997) (winner of two book prizes in 1998); and, "Slippers at the Entrance or Behind Closed Doors: Domestic and Public Space for Mosuli Women," in Madeline Zilfi, ed., Women in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire (1996).

Courses Taught:

Hist 193 History of the Middle East: Imperial Islam
Hist 232 Islam and Social Movements
Hist 233 Nationalism in the Middle East
Hist 234 Imperialism in the Middle East
Hmn 8 Islamic Humanities

Last update: 09.09.08