Mohamed Mohamed

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sociology: Sociology of Religion, Political Sociology, Institutional Change Theory, Sociology of Education

Mohamed Mohamed received his Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology at the George Mason University. His work draws from the sociology of religion, political sociology, globalization theory and institutional change theory to examine how and under what circumstances might domestic religious actors influence global politics. In his dissertation, “Al-Azhar Re-Imagined: State Appropriation, Religious Capital, and Political Transnationalism, 1924-2024”, he examines the various ways in which Egypt’s official religious establishment, al-Azhar, has been interacting with transnational politics over the last century.

Education:

Ph.D. in Sociology, George Mason University, 2024

Master of Arts in Middle Eastern Studies, King’s College London, 2017

Master of Arts in Islamic Studies, George Washington University, 2016

Bachelor of Arts in Islamic Studies, Al-Azhar University, 2009

Publications:

Mohamed, Mohamed. Selling God: The UAE, Al-Azhar, and Transnational Transferability of Religious Capital. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (Forthcoming, 2024).

Mohamed, Mohamed. “Beyond the ‘Instrumentalization’ Thesis: The Reconfiguration of al-Azhar-State Relationship in Post-Coup Egypt’. In Egypt’s New Authoritarian Republic, Robert Springborg and Abdel-Fattah Mady (eds.). Lynne Rienner, (Forthcoming, 2025).