Hanan Kholoussy

Bio:

Hanan Kholoussy is assistant professor of history and Middle East studies at the American University in Cairo and author of For Better, for Worse: The Marriage Crisis That Made Modern Egypt (Stanford, 2010).

Articles by this Author


The Fiction (and Non-Fiction) of Egypt's Marriage Crisis	In August 2006, a 27-year old pharmacist started blogging anonymously about her futile hunt for a husband in Mahalla al-Kubra, an industrial city 60 miles north of Cairo in the Nile Delta. Steeped in satirical humor, the blog of this “...