Professor Walter Armbrust
Professor Walter Armbrust
BA Washington, MA PhD Michigan, MA Oxf
Albert Hourani Fellow
Professor in Modern Middle Eastern Studies
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Professor Walter Armbrust is a Hourani Fellow and Professor in Modern Middle Eastern Studies. He is a cultural anthropologist, and author of Mass Culture and Modernism in Egypt (1996); Martyrs and Tricksters: An Ethnography of the Egyptian Revolution (2019); and various other works focusing on popular culture, politics and mass media in Egypt. He is editor of Mass Mediations: New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and Beyond (2000).