Paul Sedra is Assistant Professor of History at Simon Fraser University, and Middle East Editor of the Wiley-Blackwell journal, History Compass.  He has taught at Dalhousie University and the University of Toronto, and received his doctorate from New York University in January 2006.  His doctoral dissertation examined how ideas about monitorial schooling were developed in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England, how monitorial methods filtered into Egypt in the mid-nineteenth century and, most importantly, how such methods were appropriated and shaped by Egyptians.  Sedra has published articles in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, the Journal of Religious History, as well as the Middle East working paper series of Yale and Columbia Universities.

His book, From Mission to Modernity: Evangelicals, Reformers and Education in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, will be published by I. B. Tauris in March 2011.  For details, visit one of the following sites:

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