Oppression is not a point of view
By Hoda Elsadda Edinburgh University Press Publication Date: Jul 2012 Dimensions: 234 x 156 mm Extent: 304 pages Series: Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature A nuanced understanding of literary imaginings of masculinity and femininity in the Egyptian novel Gender studies in Arabic literature have become equated with women’s writing, leaving aside the possibility of a radical rethinking of the Arabic
» Read moreHoda Elsadda From: Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies Volume 3, Number 2, Spring 2007 pp. 31-55 Abstract The emergence of the New Woman in Egypt as a central trope in the nationalist narrative of nation-building and modernity has been the subject of scholarly interest for more than a decade, yet there has been little research on her logical counterpart: the
» Read morePublished on Sep 10, 2014 Hoda Elsadda Professor,Cairo University Co-founder,Women and Memory Forum Chair, Freedom and Right Committee, Egyptian Constitution Thursday, 13 March 2014
» Read moreDaily News, 13 September 2013 Fady Ashraf Freedoms and Rights committee head in the Constituent Assembly, Hoda Elsadda, affirms that criminalisation of discrimination is a must You are known for your academic work concerning women, and your founding of (Women and Memory forum), what is the difference between academic work, since there is a belief that academic work does
» Read moreWomen’s Media Centre, 20 January 2012 By Hoda Elsadda January 25 marks the anniversary of the onset of protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Here, Hoda Elsadda, an Egyptian women’s rights activist and professor at Cairo University, assesses women’s gains, potential losses and determination to move forward—as evidenced by last month’s 10,000-woman strong protest march. One year ago, the Egyptian people
» Read moreCairo West, 6 March 2013 By Brian Wright Dr. Hoda El Sadda is a long-standing champion for women’s rights in Egypt and the Arab World, and a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cairo University. With degrees from both Cairo University and the American University, she taught Comparative Arabic Literature at Manchester University from 2005 to 2011. In the
» Read moreOpen Democracy HODA ELSADDA 2 November 2011 The deliberate attempt to discredit women’s rights by associating them with the ex- first lady Suzanne Mubarak is a key challenge for women’s rights activists in Egypt, so too is the battle not to surrender to the prophets of doom and gloom, Hoda Elsadda tells Deniz Kandiyoti DK: As a women’s rights activist
» Read moreOpen Democracy HODA ELSADDA 8 March 2012 What are the evolving narratives of the Arab Spring? Hoda Elsadda reports from a conference in Cairo examining the conflicting narratives of and about the Arab revolutions, and the geopolitics of these narratives. Conferences and symposia on the Arab Spring have been a defining feature of the past year in the Arab world
» Read moreOpen Democracy HODA ELSADDA 3 April 2013 The statement issued by the Muslim Brotherhood in response to the UN Commission on the Status of Women draft Agreed Conclusions on violence against women, is nothing short of an assault on their most basic rights as citizens and human beings, says Hoda Elsadda, The 57th session of the Commission on the Status of Women
» Read moreOpen Democracy HODA ELSADDA 5 January 2015 Faced with unequal power relations at the negotiating table and authoritarian consolidation, a member of the 50-committee explores how feminist voices achieved leverage when drafting the 2014 Egyptian Constitution to include article 11. Caught between an authoritarian and exclusionary religious discourse on the one hand, and an equally authoritarian and exclusionary ultra-nationalist stance on
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