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Liat Maggid Alon

Teaching Assistant Professor

Courses Taught

Fall 2019                                Israeli TV and Cinema, Graduate and Under-Graduate, (University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign)

Spring 2018                            Jews in Egypt during the First Half of the 20th Century: Gender, Family and Middle Eastern Modernities (Achva Academic College)

Fall 2017                           Middle Eastern History 101 (Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the Arts)

Summer 2017                         Millets and Minorities in the Middle East during the 19th-20th Centuries (Achva Academic College)

Summer 2017                         History of the Middle East and Islam: History, Society, Culture, Adjunct Lecturer (Sapir Academic College)

Spring 2017                       The Jewish Bourgeoisie in Egypt: A Modern Middle Eastern Society (Achva Academic College)

Fall 2016 & Spring 2017         History of the Middle East and Islam: History, Society, Culture (Sapir Academic College Special Program for Bedouin Students)

Summer 2015                         The Jews in Egypt during the First Half of the 20th Century: Gender, Family, Hierarchy (Achva Academic College)

Summer 2014                    Questions of Family, Gender, and Social Relations in Contemporary Middle-Eastern Societies (David Yellin Academic College of Education)

Spring 2014                             Egyptian Modernity: Questions of Bourgeoisie, Migration and gendered relations (Achva Academic College)

Co-Designed Courses:

Fall 2016 & Spring 2017         History of the Middle East and Islam: History, Society, Culture, Adjunct Lecturer (Sapir Academic College)

 Fall 2016                         Methodology and Academic Skills Adjunct Lecturer (Ben Gurion University)

Fall 2015 & Spring 2016         History of the Middle East and Islam: History, Society, Culture, Adjunct Lecturer (Sapir Academic College)

Fall 2015                                 Methodology and Academic Skills Adjunct Lecturer (Ben Gurion University)

Spring 2014                             Methodology and Academic Skills Adjunct Lecturer (Achva Academic College)

Fall 2014 & Spring 2015         History of the Middle East and Islam: History, Society, Culture, Adjunct Lecturer (Sapir Academic College)

Fall 2014                                 Methodology and Academic Skills Adjunct Lecturer (Ben Gurion University)

Spring 2013                             Methodology and Academic Skills Adjunct Lecturer (Achva Academic College)

Fall 2013                                 Methodology and Academic Skills Adjunct Lecturer (Ben Gurion University)

 

Additional Campus Affiliations

Teaching Assistant Professor, Program in Jewish Culture and Society

 

Highlighted Publications

Monographs:

Gender and Family in a Period of Transition: Jewish Egyptian Women between the First and Second World Wars [Hebrew] (tentative name, under contract with Resling Academic Press, pending publication in 2019).

Peer-Reviewed

"Habitus, Socio-Cultural Practice and the Construction of Modernity: The Jews of Cairo and Alexandria during the First Half of the 20th Century", Jama'a Bilingual Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of the Middle East, First Prize Winner of the Jama'a Journal Young Researchers' Papers Award, May 2019.

Book Reviews

Marglin, Jessica. Across Legal Lines Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco, (Yale University Press, 2016), Review of Middle Eastern Studies Journal, June 2019.

Motzai-Haller, Pnina. Concrete Boxes: Mizrahi Women on Israel's Periphery (Wayne State University Press, 2018) [Forthcoming in Israel Studies Review].

Recent Publications

Alon, L. (2022). Class performativity, modernity and the Ashkenazi-Mizrahi divide the Jewish urban middle classes of Egypt in Israel 1948-1967. Journal of Israeli History, 40(1), 43-60. https://doi.org/10.1080/13531042.2022.2149125

Alon, L. M. (2020). Review: P. Motzafi-Haller's Concrete Boxes: Mizrahi Women of the Periphery of Israel. Journal of Jewish Identities, 13(1), 136-138. https://doi.org/10.1353/jji.2020.0001

Alon, L. M. (2019). Review: J. Marglin's Across Legal Lines: Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco. Review of Middle East Studies, 53(01), 124-126. https://doi.org/10.1017/rms.2019.13

Maggid Alon, L. (2019). The Jewish Bourgeoisie of Egypt in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: Modernity, Socio-Cultural Practices and Oral Testimonials. Jama'a: an Interdisciplinary Journal of Middle East Studies, 24, 7-32.

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