Topics she can discuss include:

• Egyptian history and politics
• Coptic Christians in Egypt
• Women and gender; religious minorities in the Middle East
• Middle Eastern history and politics

Febe Armanios is an associate professor of history at Middlebury College. She joined the faculty in 2004 and teaches courses on the history, politics, religion, and culture of the Middle East; women in Islam; and Islam and human rights.

Armanios’ research focuses on Coptic Christians in Ottoman and modern Egyptian history. In addition to several articles, Armanios has recently published a monograph titled Coptic Christianity in Ottoman Egypt (Oxford University Press, 2011).

She is the current recipient of a fellowship from the Pentecostal and Charismatic Research Initiative (PCRI), funded by the John Templeton Foundation and administered by the University of Southern California, for a project titled “Coptic Charismatic Renewal in Egypt: A Modern History.”

Armanios was a Presidential Management Fellow in 2003-2004, and worked as an Analyst in Middle East Religions and Cultures at the Congressional Research Service in Washington, D.C. In 2005, she testified before the U.S. House of Representatives on democracy in the Middle East. In 2010, she was invited to speak about her research on Christians in the Middle East at the U.S. Department of State.

She has done interviews with the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, CBS News, the New York Daily News, the Associated Press, PBS , and Vermont Public Radio, among others.

Armanios received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the Ohio State University.

Egypt Independent: "Q&A with Febe Armanios: On the history of Coptic leadership"