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Department of English Language and Literature
Cairo University
Giza
Cairo
Egypt
ABOUT
Hoda Elsadda is a feminist activist, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cairo University, and Chair of the Board of the Women and Memory Forum (www.wmf.org.eg) . She previously held a Chair in the Study of the Contemporary Arab World at Manchester University, and was Co-Director of the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World in the UK. She was Carnegie Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University in 2014-2015, and Visiting Scholar at the Asfari Institute at the American University of Beirut in 2017-2018.
Her research interests are in the areas of gender studies, comparative literature and oral history. She is author of Gender, Nation and the Arabic Novel: Egypt: 1892-2008 (Edinburgh UP and Syracuse UP, 2012).
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Arab Studies
Comparative
Gender/Women's Studies
Identity/Representation
Middle East/Near East Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Arab States
Egypt
Specialties
Arabic & Comp Lit
Gender Issues In Arab Cult
Oral Narratives Of Arab Women
Languages
Arabic (native)
French (intermediate)
English (fluent)
Education
PhD
| 1988
| English
| Cairo U
Abstracts
Traveling Critique: Gender and Rights Discourses
“Narratives of Dissent: Memory, Gender and the Ethics of Representation”
