Professor NAGASAWA Eiji

Eiji Nagasawa is professor in the Department of West Asian Studies of Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo since 1998. He has been engaged in research of area studies of the Middle East, with a focus on socio-economic history of modern Egypt. He was director of Japan Society for Promotion of Science Research Center in Cairo from April 1998 to March 1999; president of Japan Association for Middle East Studies from April 2009 to March 2011. His main works in English are Modern Egypt through Japanese Eyes, A Study on Intellectual and Socio-economic Aspects of Egyptian Nationalism, Cairo: Merit Publishing House, 2009; A Guide to Parliamentary Records in Monarchical Egypt. Tokyo: the Toyo Bunko, 2007 (co-ed.). His main works in Japanese are An Egyptian Self-Portrait: Gamal Hamdan’s “The Personality of Egypt (shakhṣīyat miṣr)” and the Irrigation System of Modern Egypt, Tokyo: Heibonsha, 2013; Jewish Egyptian Marxists and the Palestine Question, Tokyo: Heibonsha, 2012, 606p.