UW-Madison has Egypt experts available for media

 

UW-Madison has faculty familiar with Egypt who can discuss its people and the current unrest in the country:

• Dustin Carell Cowell, professor and chair of the Department of African Languages and Literature, has lived and worked in Cairo. Contact: dccowell@wisc.edu, 608-335-4894 (cell).
• Adel Talaat, associate professor of pathobiological sciences in the School of Veterinary Medicine, was born and raised in Cairo, and is in close contact with his family members still living there. Contact: atalaat@wisc.edu, 608-335-1465 (cell).