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Selma Botman
 

Ph.D. Harvard University
Academic Affiliation:Executive Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Office phone:(212) 794-5414
Email:selma.botman@mail.cuny.edu

Field of Scholarship

Middle Eastern History

Selected Publications

Engendering Citizenship in Egypt, Columbia University Press, 1999

From Independence to Revolution:  Egypt, 1922-1952, Syracuse University Press, 1991

The Rise of Egyptian Communism, 1939-1970, Syracuse University Press, 1988

Selected Articles:

"Egypt in the Liberal Age, 1923-1952" in the Cambridge History of Egypt, Volume 2, ed.

M. W. Daly, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998.

"The Egyptian Communist Party" in the Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East, ed.

Reeva Simon, New York, Macmillan Reference, USA 1996.

"Socialism and Islam" in the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, ed. John

Esposito, New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1995.

"Albert Cossery and the Men God Forgot:  Some Aspects of the Ethnic Subculture of

Egyptian Society,"  Immigrants and Minorities, vol. 7, no. 2, July 1988.

"The Experience of Women in the Egyptian Communist Movement, 1939-1954,"

Women's Studies International Forum, vol. 11, no. 2, March 1988.

"The Egyptian Communist Movement in Historical Perspective", Journal of South Asia

and Middle Eastern Studies, vol. X, no. 3, Spring, 1987.

"The Ethnic Origins of the Egyptian Communist Movement," Immigrants and Minorities,

vol. 5, no. 2, July 1986.

"The Unequal Relationship between the Egyptian Communists and Nasser's Free Officers:

1950-1954," Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 22, no. 3, July 1986.

 

 
 
 
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