Yoav Di-Capua


Yoav  Di-Capua
Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts

Phone: +1 512 475 7259
Email: ydi@austin.utexas.edu

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Daniel Oppenheimer (primary)
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Lauren Macknight (primary)
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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.

Media Rep Contact

Daniel Oppenheimer (primary)
512-475-9712
email

Lauren Macknight (primary)
512-232-6504
email