Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
c/o Gender, Women, Sexuality Studies Department
Box 354345
B110 Padelford Hall
Seattle
WA
98195
United States
ABOUT
alma's research attempts to understanding the role and effect of artists in Cairo before and during the Arab Spring through a feminist perspective. She focuses on Mohammad Mahmoud Street as a site and graffiti art as a tool used by artists to articulate and negotiate their intersecting social geographies of class, education, gender, religion, and citizenship. alma is a fellow in the Certificate in Public Scholarship, where she works with business owners and residents of 23rd and Union on issues of gentrification and dislocation. Her research utilizes digital humanities and her dissertation includes a digital component.
Discipline
Media Arts
Sub Areas
Cultural Studies
Ethnography
Gender/Women's Studies
Urban Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Specialties
Artists, Street & Mural Art
Arab & Transnational Feminisms And Theories
Nationalism & Citizenship
Languages
Arabic (native)
English (fluent)
Spanish (intermediate)
Education
MA
| 2007
| Community Art Education
| Rhode Island School of Design
BS
| 2002
| School of Natural Resources and Environment
| University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Abstracts
Re-articulating Citizenship and History: Graffiti art as site of negotiation in Cairo's Arab Spring
