Joshua Mabra received his B.A. in Anthropology from Kenyon College in 2005. He began studying Arabic in 2002 and has studied the language in Lebanon, Syria, Sudan and Egypt. From 2005-2006, he worked as a journalist in Sudan, after which he moved to the U.K, where he received an M.A. in Islamic Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 2007. In 2011, Joshua received an M.A. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, and will complete his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in the Spring of 2015. Joshua’s research focuses on the great religious and cultural changes of the Late Antique and early Islamic periods. He is particularly interested in the intertextuality of Arabic, Coptic, Syriac, Ethiopic and Greek texts. He enjoys tennis, hiking, camping and farming.
