Working Inside the Home: Domestic Labor Relations in Illegal Settlements in Cairo

Start - End 

2025 - 2027 (ongoing)

Type 

PhD research

Department(s) 

Department of Languages and Cultures

Other institution(s) 

Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Göttingen University

Research Focus 

Area studies

Gender

Media

Research Period 

Contemporary

Research Region 

Middle East

Research Language 

Arabic

Research Methodology 

Field research

Tabgroup

Abstract

Domestic Labor Relations, Single Motherhood, and Changing Economies in Cairo

People

Supervisor(s)

Lisa Franke

• Department of Languages and Cultures

• 18th Century
• 19th Century
• 20th Century
• Africa
• Anthropology
• Arabic
• Arabic literature
• Area studies
• Asia
• Body studies
• Comparative
• Contemporary
• Ethics and morality
• Field research
• Gender
• History
• Iconography and analysis of images
• Islam
• Islamic history
• Islamic Studies
• Language and text analysis
• Late Antiquity
• Literary studies
• Media
• Middle East
• Modern society
• Popular culture
• Religion