1. Mona Abaza is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology at the American University in Cairo. She is a fellow at NIAS, the Netherlands, 2006–7. Her research interests include religious and cultural networks between the Middle East and Southeast Asia and consumer culture in Egypt. Her latest book, Changing Consumer Cultures of Modern Egypt, was, jointly published in 2006 by Brill, Leiden and the American University of Cairo Press, Cairo.