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- Permanent Link:
- https://digital.soas.ac.uk/CVU0000032/00001
Notes
- Abstract:
- Amina was born in 1948 in Minyet Sammanud, Daqahaliya Governorate. She was raised in Cairo, by her father who was an Arabic language teacher and poet and her mother who was a housewife and illiterate. Her father was politically active, considering himself a Wafdist. She attended the School of Arts. There she became politically involved with communist and leftist groups. She was a founding member of the Tagammu` party and has served of their committee for human rights and central committee. At the time of the interview, she was vice president. Amina did not support the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, as she saw it giving too much influence to the Muslim Brotherhood. She supported the 30 June 2013 demonstrations. ( 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: 30 December 2013
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- Duration: 56 minutes and 52 seconds
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- Language of interview: Arabic
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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
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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