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Sanaa A. M. Makhlouf

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Known For: Senior Instructor, Department of Rhetoric and Composition at the American University in Cairo
Country: Egypt

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Sanaa A. M. Makhlouf is the Senior Instructor of AUC’s Department of Rhetoric and Composition. She obtained her BA and MA from the American University in Cairo; she received her MA in Medieval Political Philosophy at Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies; and she received her Ph.D. (ABD) at Harvard’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization on “A Hermeneutics of Spiritual Writings of al-Amir Abd al-Qadir al-Jazaíri.”

From 2005 to 2009, Ms. Makhlouf worked as a copy editor for the ISIM Review at Leiden University in the Netherlands. In 2010, she was a member of the Sunni Delegation at the Interfaith Summit Meeting at the Washington National Cathedral. This same year, she was a coordinator for the Al-Azhar Cambridge Imam Program. Similarly, in Spring 2010, she was a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies at Kyoto University. In April 2011, Ms. Makhlouf participated in the US Islamic World Forum in Washington, DC. She has written publications on Muslim Reform Movements and Quránic Hermeneutics.

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