Ahmed Ragab

As activism on Harvard’s campus proliferates during the Trump presidency, HDS Professor Ahmed Ragab and Soha Bayoumi represent models of a new politically engaged professor.

Ahmed Ragab, Richard T. Watson Associate Professor of Science and Religion at HDS, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on November 27, 2018.

This feature is part of an HDS Communications interview series highlighting selected course offerings at the School. Below, HDS student Bo Clay chats with Professor Ahmed Ragab, Richard T. Watson Associate Professor of Science and Religion and director of...

At the beginning of the fall 2016 semester, Dean David Hempton sent an email letting the HDS community know that Ahmed Ragab had been promoted to the Richard T. Watson Associate Professor of Science and Religion. To those who know him, this announcement...

A panel of HDS faculty launches the bicentennial of HDS by discussing the outcome of the 200-year history of the School: a multireligious divinity school. Audio

Religious leaders "have little support and little training in dealing with issues related to sexual and gender-based violence" (SGBV), concludes the new "Interrogating the Silence" report from the Science, Religion, and Culture Program at Harvard Divinity...

From Baghdad to Cairo to Edirne, hospitals were major and integral components of medieval and early modern Islamic cities. But what role did they play in these cities and their societies? In this podcast, Professor Ahmed Ragab examines the history and...

Pope Francis's much-anticipated encyclical on the environment, issued June 18, was received with both relief and concern, as it raised important questions to all of us—Christian or not, Catholic or otherwise. Francis's 184-page document (PDF) had several...

HDS professor Ahmed Ragab, the director of the Science, Religion, and Culture program, moderated a panel of experts who discussed the return of measles and explored the legal, ethical, and public health issues surrounding childhood vaccination.

The large number of deaths from the Ebola virus is due to the lack of sufficient medical care, said Harvard professor and physician Paul Farmer at a public forum on December 8. Farmer, who has devoted his life to bringing health care to the poorest...