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