Participant Info
- First Name
- Liat M
- Last Name
- Maggid Alon
- Country
- United States
- State
- IL Illinois
- alon.liat@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Website URL
- Keywords
- modernity, Jewish history, Gender. Middle East, Middle Eastern Jewish Communities, cultural practices, family history, oral history, Israeli television and cinema, modern Israel, modern Israeli society
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- lmm@illinois.edu
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Israel Institute Teaching Fellow, the Program for Jewish Culture and Society and the Department of History, at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Department of Middle East Studies, Ph.D. The Jewish Bourgeoisie of Egypt during the First Half of the 20th Century: The Perspectives of Gender and Family
The Baron New Voices in Jewish Studies Award recipient, A joint award presented by the program in Jewish Studies at Columbia and Fordham Universities, 2018
- Recent Publications
“Habitus, Socio-Cultural Practice and the Construction of Modernity: The Jews of Cairo and Alexandria during the First Half of the 20th Century”, Jama’a Bilingual Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of the Middle East, First Prize Winner of the Jama’a Journal Young Researchers’ Papers Award, May 2019.
Book Reviews
Marglin, Jessica. Across Legal Lines Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco, (Yale University Press, 2016), Review of Middle Eastern Studies Journal, June 2019.
Motzafi-Haller, Pnina. Concrete Boxes: Mizrahi Women on Israel’s Periphery (Wayne State University Press, 2018) [Forthcoming in Journal of Jewish Identities].
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- Middle East
- Expertise by Chronology
- Modern, 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Children & Youth, Colonialism, Family, Gender, Migration & Immigration, Politics, Religion, Sexuality, Urban History, Women, World War I, World War II
