Omnia El Shakry is professor of history at the University of California at Davis. Her research centers on the history of the human and religious sciences in modern Egypt and she is the author of The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt (Princeton, 2017), The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt (Stanford, 2007), and editor of the multi-volume Gender and Sexuality in Islam (Routledge, 2016).