Donald Reid

Donald Reid, who holds an MA and a PhD from Princeton University, is a professor emeritus of Middle Eastern history at Georgia State University. He resides in Seattle, where he is faculty affiliate with the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization at the University of Washington.

His books include Whose Pharaohs? Archaeology, Museums, and Egyptian National Identity from Napoleon to World War I; Cairo University and the Making of Modern Egypt; and Lawyers and Politics in the Arab World, 1880–1960. His current research is on archaeology and Egyptian identity from the First World War to Nasser.

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