Graduate Student, Near Eastern Studies
About
Andrew Simon is a first-year graduate student in Arabic and Islamic Studies. He received his B.A. in Arabic, Middle Eastern Studies, and Islamic Studies with highest distinction from Duke University in 2010. He is a Boren Scholar (Cairo ‘08), CASA Fellow (Cairo ‘10-‘11) and the founder of an annual children’s rights workshop / soccer and volleyball tournament in Sana’a, Yemen.
His academic interests include homeland-diasporic relations, citizenship, public piety, narratives, and polemics in popular culture – subjects he recently examined in papers presented at Georgetown University’s Arab World Diasporas and Migrations Symposium (“iCopts: Engaging and Empowering in the Digital Diaspora”) and the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo's Islam, Citizenship, and the New Media Conference ("Vanguards and Villains: Salafis as Celebrities in a Post-Revolutionary Egypt").
Andrew’s current scholarship is concerned with religious authorities in Egypt, historicizing Egyptian nationalism, and the sha'bi music scenes in Cairo and Alexandria.
Contact Information
| Homepage: | http://neareasternstudies.cornell.edu/people/NES-G |
