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Noha Forster
Lecturer of Arabic Languages
Office:
Pick Hall 228
5828 South University Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
773-834-4472
B.A., American University in Cairo.
M.A., Princeton University.

Teaching at Chicago since 2002.

Email: nforster@uchicago.edu
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Anthropological approaches to religious studies, Popular vs. "Orthodox" Islam, Religion and politics in Egypt, Mechanisms for change of Shari'a Law, Devising tools for student self-evaluation of Arabic acquisition.