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Elizabeth Monier is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge. Her main research interests include identity, the nation, sectarianism and minority/communal politics in the modern history and culture of the Arab World. She is the author of Sectarian Conflict in Egypt: Coptic media, identity and representation (Routledge, 2012) and Regional Insecurity After the Arab Uprisings (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015).
Sectarianism without Borders: Copts and Genocide Recognition
In this essay, the author contends that the violence against Copts has been misleadingly characterized as alien to Egyptian culture, and discusses how some diaspora Copts and Church leaders have sought to portray the attacks that have taken place since the Arab Spring.
Minority-ness and the Re-entrenchment of Sectarianism since the Arab Uprisings
This essay looks at sectarianism from the perspective of minority studies. The author argues that if sectarianism is understood as a struggle for power over national truths and national resources, then a persistent overemphasis on labeling minority/majority categories could contribute to the form and force of sectarian discourse and politics.
