Paul Sedra

 
 

Paul Sedra is Associate Professor of History at Simon Fraser University, and Middle East Editor of the Wiley-Blackwell journal, History Compass.  A specialist in modern Egyptian history and Christian-Muslim relations, Sedra has taught at Dalhousie University and the University of Toronto, and received his doctorate from New York University in January 2006.  His most recent book, From Mission to Modernity: Evangelicals, Reformers and Education in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, is published by I.B. Tauris.  For background on the book, please view the interview here.  Copies are currently available through the following sites:


Amazon.com   •   Barnes & Noble   •   Amazon.ca   •   I.B. Tauris   •   Amazon.co.uk

 

My office hours during the summer 2012 term are

Mondays and Wednesdays 1-2 pm in AQ 6226.

In the summer 2012 term, I will be teaching HIST 151 (syllabus). During academic year 2012-13, I will be on sabbatical

and away from Vancouver.

Brief Biography

“The Church, Maspero, and the Future of the Coptic Community,” Jadaliyya (March 19, 2012), http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/4735/the-church-maspero-and-the-future-of-the-coptic-co.


“The Pope’s Predicament,” Jadaliyya (March 17, 2012), http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/4711/the-popes-predicament. Republished in Egypt Independent (March 18, 2012), http://www.egyptindependent.com/node/718951


“Copts as Egypt’s Conscience,” Al-Akhbar English (December 21, 2011), http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/copts-egypt%E2%80%99s-conscience.


“The Dignity Revolution,” OpenCanada (November 21, 2011), http://www.opencanada.org/features/sedra-sawiris-egypt-revolution/.


“Films for the Classroom: Silences of the Palace,” Jadaliyya (November 2, 2011), http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/3024/films-for-the-classroom_silences-of-the-palace.


“Sectarianism and the Revolution,” Jadaliyya (October 11, 2011), http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/2854/sectarianism-and-the-revolution-.


“Manoubia and Her Son,” Jadaliyya (October 8, 2011), http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/2825/manoubia-and-her-son.


“The Long Shadow of the 1952 Revolution,” Jadaliyya (February 13, 2011), http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/635/the-long-shadow-of-the-1952-revolution.


“No nation has ever rebuilt another,” The Toronto Star (July 23, 2009), http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/670352.

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