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name: Hanan Hammad
about: Hanan Hammad was a Visiting Fellow at the WoolfInstitute from May to July 2015. Hanan is an assistantprofessor of history of the Middle East at Texas ChristianUniversity.Her primary research focuses on the socio-economic and cultural development of themodern Middle East with special emphasis on gender, sexuality and popular culturein modern Egypt. She is currently writing a book on the late Egyptian starlet LaylaMurad (1918-1995).Murad, who has been one of the most remembered celebrities in 20th century Arabmusical cinema, was born Jewish and announced her conversion to Islam in 1948.She prematurely retired in the mid-1950s, against the backdrop of the Arab-Israeliconflict and the consolidation of power of the Nasser regime shortly thereaft Hanan Hammad was a Visiting Fellow at the WoolfInstitute from May to July 2015. Hanan is an assistantprofessor of history of the Middle East at Texas ChristianUniversity.Her primary research focuses on the socio-economic and cultural development of themodern Middle East with special emphasis on gender, sexuality and popular culturein modern Egypt. She is currently writing a book on the late Egyptian starlet LaylaMurad (1918-1995).Murad, who has been one of the most remembered celebrities in 20th century Arabmusical cinema, was born Jewish and announced her conversion to Islam in 1948.She prematurely retired in the mid-1950s, against the backdrop of the Arab-Israeliconflict and the consolidation of power of the Nasser regime shortly thereafter.Dr Hammad co-organised the Minorities and Popular Culture in Modern Middle Eastworkshop (12-13 June 2015) with Dr Shana Cohen. The Workshop was-hosted by theWoolf Institute in conjunction with the Centre for Cultural Literary and PostcolonialStudies, SOAS, University of London. ...more