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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/CVU0000027/00001
Notes
- Abstract:
- Shereen was born in Cairo in 1966. Her father was a military pilot who was killed when Shereen was young, and her mother was a schoolteacher. She went to Cairo University, studying English literature from 1983. After finishing, she went to work in the English literature department of Cairo University. It was during her fourth year of university that Shereen become active in political and social circles. She had some involvement in the Tagammu` party and joined the Progressive Women' Union, an organisation affiliated with the Tagammu`. However, she eventually left, as she saw the Union as treating feminism as a bourgeois and secondary issue. Then she became involved with the New Woman Research Center (which later became the New Woman Foundation), particularly related to issues such as female genital cuttig and violence against women. She helped head up a project in villages in Upper Egypt where she gave gender training. In 1995, Shereen participated in the International Women’s Conference in Beijing. Shereen left the New Woman Research Center in 2002 due to disagreements over tactics and views. Prior to the revolution, she was involved in certain political events and movements, such as travelling to Iraq during the sanctions period to show solidarity with the Iraqi people and being opposed to the 2003 Iraq War. She saw the latter movement, as well as issues such as poverty and rampant unemployment as catalysts for the Egyptian revolution. She joined the protests on 28 January 2011. After Mubarak stepped down, Shereen helped found the Popular Socialist Alliance. However, due to entryism by other movements, the party quickly imploded. As of the interview, Shereen was still committed to feminist activism, as well as opposing the influence of Islamism and Salafism in the political field. ( 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: 26 December 2013
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- Duration: 2 hours, 20 minutes and 47 seconds
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- Language of interview: English
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- Audio transcription 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
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- VIAF (name authority) : Abouelnaga, Shereen : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/82147093766525001696
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- University of Warwick
- Rights Management:
- © 2013 the Interviewer and Interviewee. All rights reserved. Used here with permission.
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