Samar Nour Abdelgalil

PhD Candidate
samar.abdelgalil@mail.utoronto.ca

Fields of Study

  • Modern Middle East
  • Arabic Studies

Areas of Interest

  • Social History
  • Intellectual History
  • Colonial and postcolonial studies

Biography

Samar is currently a PhD Candidate at NMC. She specializes in the study of Modern Middle East and Arab history. She has been previously the recipient of both FAST fellowship and OGS. She also teaches the history of the modern Middle East, Arab Modern history, Islamic history, and Arabic language both at NMC and U of T tri-campus.

Current Supervisor(s)

Jens Hanssen

Dissertation Title

Childhood Governmentality in the context of Colonialism and Nation-Building in Egypt 1882-1952.

Teaching Experience

  • NMC278 Introduction to the Modern Middle East, NMC
  • NMC378 Modern Arab History, NMC
  • HISB64 Islam and the Making of the Modern Middle East 1300-2000, HCS, UTSC
  • NML110 Elementary Modern Standard Arabic, NMC
  • NML210 Intermediate I Modern Standard Arabic, NMC
  • NML 410 Advanced Modern Standard Arabic, NMC
  • ARA 410 Advanced Arabic Reading I: Reading the Sacred and the Legendary, DLS, UTM
  • ARA 411 Advanced Arabic Reading II: Literary Journeys Into the Past, DLS, UTM