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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/CVU0000015/00001
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- Abstract:
- Hoda was born in September 1958 in Cairo. Her father was a law professor at Cairo University and her mother was a housewife. Hoda studied a BA in English literature at Cairo University, an MA in English and Comparative Literature at the American University of Cairo, completed her PhD in English at Cairo University and became a professor of Comparative Literature at Cairo University. In the early 1990s, she co-founded the first Arabic journal for women and gender, called Hagar, and, through this, was invited to participate in the Egyptian NGO Forum for the International Conference on Population and Development in 1994. During this period, she was part of the campaign for a new marriage contract. She is a co-founder of the Women and Memory Forum, a research and documentation centre, producing alternative knowledge about gender in Arab history and culture. In 2004, Hoda was appointed to the National Council for Human Rights. She resigned after a year and then moved to the UK to take up a post as chair in the Study of the Contemporary Arab World, at the University of Manchester, from 2005 until 2011. Hoda was involved in the 25 January 2011 uprising and, following the stepping down of Mubarak, she resigned from Manchester University, returned to Egypt, and joined the Egyptian Social Democratic Party, where she played a role in establishing the women’s committee and became vice-president of the party. She was also one of the founders of an advocacy group called Baheyya Ya Masr and a cultural initiative called Madad, supporting experimental art projects by young Egyptian artists. She participated in the 30 June demonstrations in 2013 and was appointed as a member in the Committee of Fifty tasked with drawing up a new constitution. At the time of the interview, Hoda was preparing to withdraw from public life for a period and to travel to the US to take up a visiting fellowship position. ( 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: 13 January 2014
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- Audio transcription by Captivate Arabia, Amman, Jordan , info@captivatearabia.com
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- Language of interview: English
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- VIAF (name authority) : Pratt, Nicola Christine : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/49147457
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- آسيا -- مصر -- القاهرة -- القاهرة
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- VIAF (name authority) : El Sadda, Hoda : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/7671991
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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