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1. Michigan Journal
www.themichiganjournal.com/med - [Cached]Published on: 3/6/2005 Last Visited: 7/5/2006
Dr. El Cheikh is a history professor at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon. This was her first trip to Michigan. She received her Ph.D in history and Middle-Eastern Studies from Harvard in 1992.
El Cheikh is also the recipient of numerous honors and awards, such as the Mellon Summer Research Fellowship and the Global Affairs' International Visitors Program award from New York University.
El Cheikh gave a twenty-five minute talk addressing topics such as what it means to be a historian of the Middle-East and from the Middle-East in current times. She also discussed whether or not the "locally based" historian from the Middle-East has a different attitude or goal than a foreign historian when examining Middle-Eastern history.
El Cheikh has also studied Medieval Islam extensively. In particular, she focuses on interactions and relations between the Byzantine empire and Arab leaders of the seventh, eighth and ninth centuries.
In 2004, she authored a book titled "Byzantine: Viewed by the Arabs." She also talked about the many similarities she sees between American and Iraqi leaders of the 1990's to the present and the leaders of the Byzantine empire and the Arab world.
El Cheikh discussed Islamic feminists of the present. In her words, Islamic feminists "emphasize interpretive reading on the Qu'ran based on equality and justice."
El Cheikh ended her talk by calling for "more exchange, more interaction, more dialogue" so that we may "go out of ourselves, beyond our knowledge and bond to enrich everyone concerned."
