Overview
Amr Leheta is a PhD candidate at Cornell University’s Department of Near Eastern Studies studying the historical production of territory in modern Egypt. His dissertation project, tentatively titled "Territorial Egypt: Geography, Cartography, and Nation-Building in the Making of a Geo-Body, 1830s–1930s," investigates the construction of the Egyptian geo-body and its dissemination to the Egyptian public in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. As an undergraduate and master’s student, his research focused on modern Middle Eastern and Egyptian history and politics, covering issues on modern state- and nation-building, nationalism, and political secular thought.
Committee members
Ziad Fahmy (Chair), Mostafa Minawi, Raymond B. Craib
Research Focus
Modern Middle Eastern History; Modern Arab and Islamic Thought; Nationalism and Identity; Egypt