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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/CVU0000001/00001
Notes
- Abstract:
- Iman Ezzedine was born in Cairo in 1956, in the Saraya Al-Qobbah neighbourhood. Her mother was a housewife and her father was a legal accountant. She studied theatre at Ayn Shams University. After graduating in 1978, Iman travelled to Europe. She married in 1980 and went to Saudi Arabia where her husband was working. There she taught English at a prestigious secondary school and her daughter was born in 1984. After her divorce in 1988, she returned to Egypt to do her MA and then travelled to Italy for her PhD, both in Greek theatre. In the 1990s, she returned to Egypt and taught theatre in the Classics Department of Ayn Shams University as well as teaching at the Academy of Arts and Cinema Institute. In 2006 she founded the Department of Drama and Theatre at her university. Iman was active in the March 9th Movement for the Independence of Egyptian Universities and participated in the 25 January 2011 uprising. Afterwards she joined the Egyptian Social Democratic Party because of her desire to advocate for social justice. In June 2013, she was fired from her post at the National Archives by the Muslim Brotherhood government but reinstated after Mohammed Morsi was deposed in July 2013 She participated in the 30 June demonstrations against Morsi. At the time of the interview Iman was continuing her work in the National Archives and as a university professor. ( en )
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- Funding : Women's Activism in the Arab World (2013-2016). This project, funded by a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, examines the significance of middle-class women's activism to the geo/politics of Arab countries, from national independence until the Arab uprisings. It was based on over 100 personal narratives of women activists of different generations from Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon.
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- Interview conducted on: 01 January 14
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- Duration: 1 hour, 54 minutes and 49 seconds
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- Language of interview: English
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- Audio transcription and translation by Captivate Arabia, Amman, Jordan, info@captivatearabia.com
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- آسيا -- مصر -- القاهرة -- القاهرة
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- VIAF (name authority) : Pratt, Nicola Christine : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/49147457
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- University of Warwick
- Rights Management:
- © 2014 the Interviewer and Interviewee. All rights reserved. Used here with permission.
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