Sophie Frankford

Sophie Frankford is an anthropologist currently based in Cairo as a Postdoctoral Fellow at CEDEJ. After an undergraduate degree in Music and an MPhil in Middle Eastern Studies, she completed a PhD in Anthropology at the University of Oxford. Her thesis was an ethnography of Egyptian shaʿbi music, considering how the style relates to broader issues of class and urban space. It was based on 21 months of fieldwork including one year spent working as a violinist in various shaʿbi bands.