Maha Abdel Megeed

Maha Abdel Megeed recently submitted her doctoral thesis titled ‘Khayālῑ Textuality as Historical Urgency: al-Muwayliḥῑ’s Ḥadῑth ‘ῑsa ’Ibn Hishām and the long 1890s’ for examination at the department of the Near and Middle East, SOAS, University of London. She completed her MA at King’s College London in the department of Comparative Literature. She graduated from AUC with a major in English and Comparative Literature and a minor in philosophy. Her research interests include the history of conceptual thought in Arabic, and the possibility of deploying it to re-think the history of capitalism and modernity. Her other obsessions include: delving into archives, going to plays, listening to music, and discovering old films though most of her time is spent getting lost in an attempt to go to any of these places.