Mohamed Mohamed

Mohamed Mohamed is a PhD candidate at the George Mason University’s Department of Sociology and Anthropology. His work draws from the sociology of religion, political sociology, and theories of globalization to examine how and under what circumstances might domestic religious actors influence global politics. His research seeks to examine the various ways in which al-Azhar, a thousand-year-old prestigious Sunni religious edifice and the epitome of institutionalized Islam in Egypt, has been interacting with transnational politics over the last two decades. Prior to embarking on his PhD journey, Mohamed earned two master’s degrees: one in Islamic Studies from the George Washington University, where he was a Fulbright scholar, and another in Middle Eastern Studies from King’s College London, where he was a Chevening scholar.