The Middle Eastern Studies Department Welcomes Professor Yoav Di-Capua

The Department of Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to introduce our newest faculty member, Visiting Professor Yoav Di-Capua.

About Yoav Di-Capua:

Yoav Di-Capua teaches modern Arab intellectual history. He is the author of Gatekeepers of the Arab Past: Historians and History Writing in Twentieth-Century Egypt (University of California Press, 2009) and No Exit: Arab Existentialism, Jean Paul Sartre and Decolonization (University Press of Chicago, 2018). He is currently completing a new history of the Global 60s in the Arab world. His work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany, and the Simon Guggenheim Foundation.

Courses:

MES 12.03 (10A) Egyptian Culture, Society, and Politics. Di-Capua (SOC/NW)