Toufoul Abou-Hodeib

Toufoul Abou-Hodeib is a Professor in Modern Middle East History at the University of Oslo's Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History (IAKH), where she also serves as program leader for history. Her research merges cultural, social, and material history to examine late Ottoman modernity through domestic life, pilgrimage networks, and transnational intellectual exchanges.

• Education
  • Ph.D. in History of Culture (2010), University of Chicago
  • M.A. in Social Sciences (2002), University of Amsterdam
  • Bachelor of Architecture (1998), American University of Beirut
• Research Themes
  • Global circulation of knowledge in the Levant
  • Material culture and class formation
  • Folklore and political aesthetics
  • Refugee temporality and displacement
  • Colonial-modern intersections
• Teaching
  • "History of the Middle East, 1860-1971" (Oxford, M.Phil.)
  • Gendered labor practices in colonial contexts
  • Methodologies for studying domestic life
• Languages
  • Arabic, English, French, German, Hebrew, Norwegian, Ottoman Turkish
• Research Groups
  • YALLA (Everyday Politics and Aesthetics in MENA)
  • History of Capitalism
  • Critical Historiography
  • Migration, Minorities and Diversity