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- Permanent Link:
- https://digital.soas.ac.uk/CVU0000005/00001
Notes
- Abstract:
- Manar was born in Imbaba, Cairo, on 2 March 1968 but grew up in downtown Cairo. Her father was an Arabic language teacher but was detained for being a communist and had to resign from his position. Her mother was an elementary school teacher. As a teenager, Manar began to move in leftist circles through involvement in the Tagammu’ party. She began studying medicine at Cairo University in 1985, during which time student politics was stagnant. At the beginning of the 1990s, the Revolutionary Socialists emerged and she began working with them. After finishing her medical training, Manar became a professor at Cairo University. In 2003, she became involved in the March 9th Movement for the Independence of Egyptian Universities, which emerged out of the protests against the war on Iraq, but split from the movement in 2008 due to differences over strategy. She was also involved with Kefaya, the Egyptian Movement for Change, and Doctors without Rights. She participated in the 25 January 2011 uprising. At the time of the interview she was still politically active as a member of the Revolutionary Socialists and working 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: 2 January 2014
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- Duration: 1 hour, 3 minutes, and 1 second
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- Language of interview: Arabic
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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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