Biographical Note

 

Dr Walter Armbrust

Walter Armbrust is Hourani Fellow at St Antony's College and University Lecturer in Modern Middle Eastern Studies. He is a cultural anthropologist whose research interests focus on popular culture and mass media in the Middle East. He is the author of Mass Culture and Modernism in Egypt, and editor of Mass Mediations: New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and Beyond. Dr Armbrust is currently working on a cultural history of the Egyptian cinema.

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