نهى

Noha is a Cairo-based cultural anthropologist with fifteen years of experience conducting qualitative and ethnographic research on issues of gender, social class, and nationalism between academia and civil society. She started her graduate training in anthropology at the American University in Cairo, where she received her MA in 2010, and moved on to earn her doctorate from Boston University in 2021. Noha’s work looks at the reproduction, reconfiguration, and negotiation of colonial cultural hierarchies as class and gender practices in contemporary Egypt. In the past eight years, she has been studying the socialization of elite Egyptian youth in and around Cairo’s international schools. Beyond scholarship, Noha is also an avid reader of literary fiction, a podcast enthusiast, and an amateur artisan-bread baker.