Скачать или смотреть Alon Tam, "Coffeehouses, Parks, and Neighborhoods: Jews and Muslims in 20th-Century Cairo"

In this talk, Alon Tam discusses the urban life of Jews in 20th-century Cairo. His talk contextualizes the film by Iris Zaki "Egypt: A Love Song."

Alon Tam is a social historian of modern Egypt and of its Jewish community. He has written about the social and political history of Cairo's coffeehouses, about Cairo's Jews and their place in its urban history, as well as on topics ranging from the Jewish press in Tangier, Morocco, to Blackface in Egyptian theater. Tam received his Ph.D. from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania, and in 2020-2021 was a Rabin-Shvidler postdoctoral fellow at Columbia and Fordham. He has also held postdoctoral fellowships and teaching positions at Penn, UCLA, and currently at Ben Gurion University and Tel Aviv University.