Nareman Amin

Nareman Amin is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Islam in the Religious Studies Department. Her research focuses on religious authority, affect, political participation, Islamic liberation theology, social media and Muslim youth culture. Her book (forthcoming with Oxford University Press), “Is God for Revolution?: Affect, Youth, and Islam in Post-2011 Egypt” examines how Muslim youth partaking in the 2011 Egyptian uprising affectively responded to the promise and ultimate demise of a revolution.

From 2021 to 2022, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy and Middle East Center Regional Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. She taught courses on social movements and revolutions, Islamic history, and youth culture and social media at the University of Pennsylvania, Fordham University and the American University in Cairo.

Education:

Ph.D., Princeton University (Religion), 2021

M.A., Princeton University (Religion), 2017

M.A., University of South Florida (Political Science), 2015

B.A., American University in Cairo (History), 2011