Sarah Eltantawi joins the Evergreen Faculty

Evergreen eagerly awaits the arrival of new faculty member Sarah Eltantawi, a scholar of religion, writer and political analyst. Sarah has a PhD from Harvard University (2012) focusing on Islamic studies in general, with a focus on Islamic law in contemporary Muslim-majority societies. Her vita includes fieldwork and research on the “political theology” of the Muslim Brotherhood in contemporary Egypt, and an in-depth study of the notorious case of Amina Lawal, a peasant woman from Northern Nigeria who was sentenced to death by stoning in 2002.

Starting in 2011, Sarah has been a visiting fellow at the Freie Universität, Berlin, a Scholar in Residence in Religion, Culture, Gender and the Law at Brandeis University, and the Sultan Postdoctoral Fellow in Arab studies at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of CA, Berkeley.Sarah takes up her post at Evergreen later in 2014. Those eager to meet her can follow her on Twitter and read Lessons from the Egyptian Revolution, 3 years later, in Ma’an News Agency.