Contact
Francisco Silvela 122
Madrid
28002
Spain
ABOUT
Marta Agosti in currently a research associate in the department of Social Anthropology at SOAS. She is also the Specialist on Protection from Sexual Abuse and Exploitation for the UN mission in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Marta has worked with survivors of sexual violence since 2007, leading projects in Tunisia, Algeria and more deeply in Egypt from 2008 to 2016 where she was the coordinator of the Female Genital Mutilation UNICEF-UNFPA trust fund and where she also conducted her fieldwork for her PhD, which looked at civil society movements combatting sexual violence during the Egyptian Revolution.
Her research has focused on gender, body politics and citizenship, which resulted in her thesis ‘The Female Protestor: sexual violence and the making and unmaking of the state in Egypt post January 25, 2011’ in 2018. As a humanitarian and development practitioner, she has been working and researching in the region--Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, oPt and Sudan--since 2005.
With a BA in Humanities, Marta also holds an MRes and a master's degree in development.
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
Ethnography
Gender/Women's Studies
Nationalism
Human Rights
Middle East/Near East Studies
Urban Studies
Sexuality
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Lebanon
Sudan
The Levant
West Bank
Palestine
Specialties
Social Institutions Ethnography
Youth, Gender And Human Rights With Specific Focus
Nationalism And Globalization In The Middle East
Languages
Spanish (native)
English (fluent)
French (fluent)
Arabic (intermediate)
Education
DPhil
| 2018
| Social Anthropology
| SOAS
MPhil
| 2014
| Anthropology
| SOAS
MA
| 2013
| Anthropology
| SOAS
MA
| 2004
| Political Sciences
| Universidad Complutense
B.Acc.
| 2002
| Humanities
| Univ. Carlos III
Abstracts
Five hundred Mob-Sexual Assaults and one FGM case: Whose laws rule Women’s rights in Egypt?
My Body, My violence and My Political Resistance: Rape, Public Testimony, and Silence at the Margins of Tahrir
