Tarek Saadawi (CUNY, the Alliance of Egyptians in North America)
Beth Baron (Director, Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center, CUNY)

Mohamed Aboulghar (Cairo University)
The Egyptian 1919 revolution: a great event in the history of Modern Egypt

Mr. Thomas Gorguissian (Journalist)
“The Revolution of Hearts, Minds and Creativity”

Kyle Anderson (Assistant Professor, History, Old Westbury, SUNY)
“Whose Revolution? The Peasant Rebellion of 1918 and the Egyptian ‘nationalist’ Revolution”

Discussant: Robert Tignor (Professor Emeritus, History, Princeton University)

Jeffrey Culang (IHS Fellow, University of Texas at Austin)
“Speech and Secrecy in Egyptian Law before and after 1919”

  Hussein Omar (Lecturer in Modern Global History, University College Dublin, National University of Ireland)
“A Minority is Like a Microbe’: How Egypt Forgot Its Sectarian Past in 1919”

Discussant: Eve Troutt Powell (Distinguished Professor, History, University of Pennsylvania)

Beth Baron (Distinguished Professor, History, City College and Graduate Center)
“Birthing Egyptians: Mothers, Medical Doctors, and the 1919 Revolution”

Nefertiti Takla (Assistant Professor, Manhattan College)
“Civilizing Women: Gender, Sexuality, and National Belonging during the Egyptian Revolution, 1919-1921”

Discussant: Amr Kamal (Assistant Professor, French and Arabic, City College)

Panelists: Amr Kamal, Robert Tignor, Eve Troutt Powell