Days after the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, an Islamic faith development organization launched a campaign to eradicate illiteracy. Drawing together the anthropology of religion and development, this talk will explore literacy activism at the nexus of Islamic reform and the effort to "build a new Egypt."
Nermeen Mouftah, Buffett Postdoctoral Fellow, completed her doctoral work at the University of Toronto in 2014. She is developing her doctoral research into a monograph that examines literacy development in order to investigate how activism for, and techniques of, literacy are imbricated in religious reform that shape public religion in post-Mubarak Egypt.
This is part of the Buffett Institute Faculty & Fellows Colloquium.