Yoav Di-Capua
Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
Phone: +1 512 475 7259
Email: ydi@austin.utexas.edu
Phone: +1 512 475 7259
Email: ydi@austin.utexas.edu
Yoav Di-Capua is an Associate Professor of history who specializes in modern Arab thought. He is the author of Gatekeepers of the Arab Past: Historians and History Writing in Twentieth-Century Egypt (University of California Press, 2009). His new book, No Exit: Arab Existentialism, Jean Paul Sartre and Decolonization, was published by the University Press of Chicago. His is currently writing a new book that traces the rise of Islamic fundamentalism back to the secular struggles for national liberation.