Fadi A. Elsaid

Fadi A. Elsaid is a PhD candidate in French and Arabic Studies at the University of Connecticut. His research focuses on modern mediatic circulations between France and Egypt, at the intersection of literature, visual culture, and cinema. His dissertation, Media, Empiricism, and Imperialism: The Representation of Labor from the Encyclopédie to the Description de l’Égypte, examines the visual genealogy of labor drawings in the Description de l’Égypte, situating them within the artisanal and empiricist legacy of the Encyclopédie and within the media economy of the Egyptian Expedition (1798–1801). He is the author of two recent articles on the adaptation of Émile Zola’s Thérèse Raquin in the Egyptian film Lak Yūm yā Ẓālim (1951), scripted by Naguib Mahfouz. He has taught Arabic and French at the American University in Cairo, the École Normale Supérieure, INALCO, Sciences Po, the University of Connecticut, and Wesleyan University.