This summer the sad news reached us that the Egyptian sociologist Mona Abaza, to whom we owe insightful studies on interactions between the Middle East and Southeast Asia as well as important works on contemporary Egyptian culture and society, passed away after a long and painful struggle with cance...
Following Egypt and Sudan’s dramatic political events over the last decade, many studies have emphasized the study of change in the public spaces (Abaza, 2014; Stephenson, 2011; Alraouf, 2011; Bahreldin, 2020). The topic of the public space has previously instigated crucial debates into the concepts...
Since the early 1990s, large shopping centres have soared in the suburbs of the major North African cities, reflecting the spread of globalised consumption patterns to the wealthiest social groups of these rapidly changing societies (Abaza 2006; Troin 2010; Assaf 2017). Although less emblematic and...
Abaza Mona. Intellectuals, Power and Islam in Malaysia : S.N. al-Attas or the Beacon on the Crest of a Hill. In: Archipel, volume 58, 1999. L'horizon nousantarien. Mélanges en hommage à Denys Lombard (Volume III) pp. 189-217.
Mona Abaza This paper attempt to draw a close picture on an Arab origin mosque in Singapore, the Ba'alawi mosque. It attempts to bring detailed material on the physical and social setting of the mosque to reveal the networks with the Middle East and the cosmopolitanism of its Imam. This paper will b...