Gendering
(counter) Revolutionary Processes in Egypt
ProfessorNadje Al-Ali, SOAS, University of London
18:00, 27th
February,
Westminster Forum, 5th Floor, 32-38 Wells St, University of Westminster, W1T3UW
All are welcome to attend; for further information please contact Dr Aidan Hehir (a.hehir@wmin.ac.uk)
Nadje Al-Ali is Professor of Gender Studies at the Centre
for Gender Studies, SOAS, University of London. Her main research interests
revolve around gender theory; feminist activism; women and gender in the Middle
East; transnational migration and diaspora moblization; war, conflict and
reconstruction’ art & cultural studies and food. Her publications include
What kind of Liberation? Women and the Occupation of Iraq (2009, University
of California Press, co-authored with Nicola Pratt); Women and War in the
Middle East: Transnational Perspectives (Zed Books, 2009, co-edited with Nicola Pratt); Iraqi Women: Untold
Stories from 1948 to the Present (2007, Zed Books); New
Approaches to Migration (ed., Routledge, 2002, with Khalid Koser); Secularism,
Gender and the State in the Middle East (Cambridge University Press 2000)
and Gender Writing – Writing Gender (The American University in Cairo
Press, 1994) as well as numerous book chapters and journal articles. Her most
recent book (co-edited with Deborah al-Najjar) is entitled We are Iraqis: Aesthetics & Politics in a Time of War (Syracuse
University Press).
Professor Al-Ali was
President of the Association of Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS) from
2009-2011. Recently, she has been elected to the Board of the Middle East
Studies Association (MESA). She is also a member of the Feminist Review
Collective and a founding member of Act Together: Women’s Action for
Iraq (www.acttogether.org). She is
currently involved in several projects with Iraqi academics and women’s rights
activists with the aim to facilitate the introduction of women and gender
studies and increase evidence-based research capacity in Iraq.
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