Date &
Time:
Tuesday,
21 March 2017,
11:30 am ~ 1:30 pm (Doors Open at 11:00 pm)
Location: Cairo
University, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Sawiris Hall,
Center for International Area Studies
Host : Center for
International Area Studies,
Faculty of Economics
and Political Science, Cairo University, with support of Embassy of Japan in
Egypt
Members of the
Academic Dialogue:
* Professor Eiji Nagasawa, Professor in the Department of West Asian
Studies of Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of
Tokyo.
* Prof. Amani Massoud Professor of political science at the Faculty of
Economics and Political Science .
* Dr. Mazen Hassan Assistant Professor of political science in the
Faculty of Economics and Political Science.
In the presence of Dr. Magda Saleh, dean of the Faculty of Economics and
Political Science, and Dr. Mohamed Kamal, Head of the Center for
International Area Studies will moderate the symposium.
Language:
Arabic / English
(Simultaneous Translation available)
*Admission is free (first come first served basis)

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.