{"id":51311,"date":"2024-09-10T13:54:01","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T13:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wmf.org.eg\/?p=51311"},"modified":"2024-09-23T13:31:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T13:31:07","slug":"call-for-participation-wmf-webinar-selected-feminist-readings-in-contemporary-literature-and-islamic-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wmf.org.eg\/en\/call-for-participation-wmf-webinar-selected-feminist-readings-in-contemporary-literature-and-islamic-heritage\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Participation: WMF Webinar \u201cSelected Feminist Readings in Contemporary Literature and Islamic Heritage\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Women and Memory Forum (WMF) is organizing an interactive online seminar entitled
\n\u201cSelected Feminist Readings in Contemporary Literature and Islamic Heritage\u201d to be held via Zoom
\non Sunday, 29 September 2024, from 11:00 AM and 03:00 PM (local Cairo time). The webinar is
\norganized within the framework of the WMF project Feminist Readings in Arab Cultural
\nHistory.
\nThe seminar is divided into two sessions:<\/strong>
\n1. \u201cReading the Provisions for Women\u2019s Issues in Islamic History\u201d delivered by Dr. Omaima Abu-
\nBakr and Dr. Hoda al-Saadi.<\/h5>\n
2. \u201cImaginations and Emotions in the Archive: Rereading Canonical History from a Feminist
\nPerspective\u201d delivered by Dr. Hoda Elsadda.<\/h5>\n
The event targets participants:<\/strong>
\n\uf0b7 from the Arab region
\n\uf0b7 of all genders
\n\uf0b7 with priority given to applicants with experience in research work.
\nTo maintain space for active discussion and interaction, please apply via:
\nhttps:\/\/forms.gle\/KpX1RL47QUnLNiWx8<\/a><\/span> before 16 September 2024.<\/h5>\n
Meet the Presenters<\/strong>
\n–Omaima Abu-Bakr<\/strong> is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cairo University, and a
\nfounding member of the Women and Memory Forum. She currently serves as the Chairwoman of
\nthe WMF\u2019s Board of Trustees. She specializes in Medieval Sufi poetry and comparative English and
\nArabic studies. Her research interests include spiritual literature, women sufism in Islam and
\nChristianity, religious knowledge from a feminist perspective, women in the history of Islam,
\nwomen and gender issues in Islamic heritage and contemporary Islamic discourses, and the Qur\u2019anic
\ninterpretations. She has academic publications in English and Arabic Medieval poetry and literature,
\nthe development of religious discourses on\/about women, and Islamic feminism.<\/h5>\n
–Hoda al-Saadi<\/strong> holds a PhD in Islamic History and lectures at the American University in Cairo. She
\nis a founding member of the Women and Memory Forum.<\/h5>\n
–Hoda Elsadda<\/strong> is a feminist activist, a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cairo
\nUniversity, and a founding member of the Women and Memory Forum. She previously worked as a
\nProfessor of Contemporary Arabic Studies at Manchester University (2005-2011), an Associate
\nDirector of the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World in the United Kingdom, and a
\nvisiting researcher at George Town University (2014-2015). Her research interests include gender
\nstudies, comparative studies, and oral history. Her publications include Gender, Nation, and the Arabic Novel: Egypt (1982-2008), translated into Arabic by Hala Kamal, and published in 2020 by
\nEgypt\u2019s National Council for Translation. She also edited Oral History in Times of Change: Gender,
\nDocumentation, and the Making of Archives, in Cairo Papers in Social Science Vol. 35, No. 1,2018.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Women and Memory Forum (WMF) is organizing an interactive online seminar entitled \u201cSelected Feminist Readings in Contemporary Literature and Islamic Heritage\u201d to be held via Zoom on Sunday, 29 September 2024, from 11:00 AM and 03:00 PM (local Cairo time). The webinar is organized within the framework of the WMF project Feminist Readings in … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wmf.org.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wmf.org.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wmf.org.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wmf.org.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wmf.org.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wmf.org.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wmf.org.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wmf.org.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wmf.org.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}