Thursday, February 19, 2015
2:00pm – 3:30pm
Speaker: Ahmad Shokr
Ahmad Shokr is completing his PhD in History and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at NYU (2015), with a dissertation entitled, “Beyond the Fields: Cotton and the End of Empire in Egypt, 1919 â€1956.” Shokr also holds an MA from NYU (2008) and a BA from the University of Toronto (2006).
Partner lecture: History Department and Watson Institute.