Category: Translating Dissent

Interview: Hoda Elsadda: Biggest conflict facing Constituent Assembly is the violent rivalry in the streets, on TV and the sharp division of society

Egypt, Hoda Elsadda, Interviews, Translating Dissent

Daily 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

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Egypt—The Revolution Will Continue

Articles, Egypt, Hoda Elsadda, Translating Dissent

Women’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

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Dr. Hoda El Sadda Stands Up to Sexual Harassment

Egypt, Hoda Elsadda, Interviews, Translating Dissent

Cairo 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

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Egypt: the battle over hope and morale

Egypt, Hoda Elsadda, Interviews, Translating Dissent

Open 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

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Narrating the Arab spring from within

Articles, Egypt, Hoda Elsadda, Translating Dissent

Open 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

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A war against women: The CSW declaration and the Muslim Brotherhood riposte

Articles, Egypt, Hoda Elsadda, Translating Dissent

Open 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

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Article 11: feminists negotiating power in Egypt

Articles, Egypt, Hoda Elsadda, Translating Dissent

Open 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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What Word Is This Place? Translating Urban Social Justice and Governance

Sherief Gaber, Translating Dissent

Sherief Gaber Alongside the political transformations that Egypt has witnessed since 2011, there has been a concomitant transformation within Egyptian cities and a wealth of civil society initiatives seeking social justice in the urban environment. Architectural and planning practices, local NGOs and rights groups have sought new languages and new terminology to deal with the phenomena on the ground and

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Egypt – A View from the Revolution

Citizen Media, Egypt, Protest Movements, Sherief Gaber, Translating Dissent

Sherief Gaber As Interviewed by Elizah Flores, March 30, 2011 Whatever connection I had with Egypt was just screaming at me that I had to go. Introductory Profile: About Sherief Gaber Sherief Gaber is a twenty-six year-old graduate student at the University of Texas studying law and urban planning. He grew up in Memphis and went to college in Saint

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