Marwa Elshakry

About the Author

Marwa Elshakry is a historian of science whose work explores the global circulation of ideas and the cultural transformations they produce. She examines how scientific thought, particularly evolutionary theory, was translated, debated, and reinterpreted across linguistic and intellectual boundaries in the modern Middle East. Her scholarship illuminates the dynamic encounters between Western science and Arab intellectual traditions, revealing the creative adaptations and contestations that shaped both. Elshakry's research bridges history, science studies, and postcolonial thought, offering nuanced perspectives on modernity, secularism, and cross-cultural knowledge exchange.