Omnia El Shakry

Omnia El Shakry is Professor of History, specializing in the intellectual and cultural history of the modern Middle East. She is the author of The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt and editor of Gender and Sexuality in Islam. She is currently working on a book project, tentatively titled, Decolonizing Psychoanalysis, which rethinks key meta-psychological concepts – such as the unconscious, imagination, ethics, and embodiment – by drawing upon non-Western theory and apophatic theology while exploring the Arabic translation of Sigmund Freud’s Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality.