Sherifa Zuhur
Sherifa D. Zuhur is an academic and national security scholar of the Middle East and Islamic world.Career
Her most recent book, Conflicting Interests in Egypt: Political, Business, Religious, Gender, Popular Culture, was co-authored with Dr. Marlyn Tadros. Her most recent research is on popular music and dance of Egypt. Other recent work explores salafism in Morocco. She published an extended opinion piece on the case of Sirhan Sirhan on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
Zuhur was a Distinguished Visiting Professor of National Security Studies from 2004 to 2006, then Research Professor of Islamic and Regional Studies from 2006 to 2009 at the U.S. Army War College's Strategic Studies Institute. International Fellows who studied with her there included Egyptian Field Marshal Abdel Fattah el-Sisi; General Sedki Sobhi, Egypt's former Minister of Defense; and Taysir Abdullah Saleh, defense attache at the Embassy of Yemen and nephew of the late President Saleh.
She has also held faculty positions at the American University in Cairo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California, Berkeley, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, California State University Sacramento, and Cleveland State University.
Zuhur has contributed to governmental and defense studies work groups, a NATO counterterrorism work group, a commission on Yemen, legal rights reforms, and other efforts on numerous subjects including women's/gender rights, including counterterrorism and Islamic movements in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza. She has also contributed to research and legal rights work groups on human and women's rights.
She is a past President of the Association of Middle East Women's Studies.
Zuhur has been an advocate for legal reforms to benefit women in the region.
