Egypt in focus: creativity in adversarial contexts

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Nevine El Nossery

Nevine El Nossery is Associate Professor in the departments of French and Italian, and African Cultural Studies, and the director of the Middle East Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests include Francophone and Postcolonial Studies, women writing, art and politics, and Middle-Eastern literature and culture. She is the author of the following books: The Unspeakable: Representations of Trauma in Francophone Literature and Art (co-edited volume, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013); Témoignages fictionnels au féminin. Une réécriture des blancs de la guerre civile algérienne (Rodopi, 2012); Frictions et devenirs dans les écritures migrantes au féminin. Enracinement et renégociation (co-edited volume, 2011); and Nancy Huston, Nord Perdu (translated into Arabic, 2005). She has also published many articles in national and international journals such as Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, French Cultural Studies, Journal of North African Studies, Nouvelles Études Francophones, and Expressions Maghrébines.

Shereen Abouelnnaga

Shereen Abouelnaga is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cairo University and is a feminist literary critic. She has published books (Arabic & English) and critical literary articles in scholarly journals, with a focus on gender.  Aware of her position in the third world, Abouelnaga views the world from the lens of a socialist feminist. Studying the inter/transcultural encounters in literature and the arts, during the peak of globalization and its offspring: Neoliberalism, guides her engagement with the field of cultural/gender studies. Her Arabic books include: A Passion of Difference: Readings in Selected Feminist Texts (1997); Feminist or Womanist? (2001); Nation in the Narration of Arab Women Writers (2003); and Intellectuals in the Transitional Phase of Egypt (2014). In English she has published Women in Revolutionary Egypt: Gender and the New Geographics of Identity (2016, AUC Press) and several articles. Forthcoming is her book about motherhood as a comparative tool of gender constructs in the global South and North.