Overview
Mohammed was raised in Brooklyn, New York, where his parents settled by way of Alexandria, Egypt. In 2017, he attained a two-year scholarship to study for an M.A. in Islamic Studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar. His research interests during that period centered on the responses of the ‘ulamā’ to the Arab uprisings. His thesis examined a theological concept known as ‘commanding right and forbidding wrong’ (al-amr bi’l al-ma’rūfwa’l-nahy ‘an al-munkar). In this study, he was concerned with the ethic of commanding right as it was deployed by two prominent Muslim scholars, Sheikh ʿAli Jumʿa and Sheikh Yusef al-Qaradawi. He has more recently worked on a project which looks at the inclusion of humor in mahraganat music in Egypt, a genre that emerged in Cairo in the late 2000’s and has been subjected to censorship by cultural regulators.
- (2019) Awarded Study Abroad Scholarship Thesis Development at St Anthony's College, University of Oxford
- (2020-2022)CUNY—The Graduate Center Dean’s Merit Scholarship