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Samer
S. Shehata Samer
Shehata is an Assistant Professor of Arab Politics at the Center for
Contemporary Arab Studies in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign
Service at Georgetown University. Dr. Shehata teaches courses on Arab
and Middle East politics, comparative politics, U.S. foreign policy toward
the Middle East, Egyptian politics, culture and politics in the Arab
world and other subjects. He served as the Acting Director of the Master
of Arts in Arab Studies Program during the 2002-2003 academic year.
Before coming to Georgetown he spent one year as a Fellow at the Society
of Fellows at Columbia University and another as Director of
Graduate Studies at New
York University's Center for Near Eastern Studies. He finished a PhD
in the Politics Department at Princeton
University in 2000 and has also taught at the American University in
Cairo.
His
dissertation "Plastic Sandals, Tea and Time: Shop Floor Politics
and Culture in Egypt," received the Malcolm
Kerr Dissertation Award in the social sciences from the Middle East
Studies Association of North America in 2001. In the spring of 2002, he
developed a popular course (co-taught with Professor Michael Hudson)
entitled "The US, the Middle East, and the War on Terrorism,"
which continues to be taught at Georgetown University. The course has
been featured on the BBC Newsnight, Fox News and NPR's 'All Things
Considered.'
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