Time (London Time) |
Name |
Affiliation |
Talk Title |
Talk |
Video |
8:30 – 8:45 am |
Prof. Kamal Abdel-Malek |
Chief Editor, Arabic and World Literature |
Opening Ceremony |
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8:45-9:40 am |
Prof. Omnia Amin (Keynote speaker) |
Zayed University, UAE |
Nawal El Saadawi and Fifty Years of Cultural Revolution |
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9:40-10:00 am |
Break |
Panel One: Nawal El Saadawi: Crossing the Frontiers and Breaking the Shackles Chair: Dr. Per Gahrton, Swedish Sociologist and Former Swedish MP and MEP (Greens) |
10:00-10:30 am |
Dr. Per Gahrton |
Swedish Sociologist and Former Swedish MP and MEP (Greens) |
Nawal El-Saadawi, Feminist of the Arabs |
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10:30-11:00 am |
Prof. Hany Ali Saeed Mr. Ibrahim Sayed Fawzy (speaker) |
Qassim University, Saudi Arabia Fayoum University, Egypt |
Aesthetics of Self-Making and Resistance in Nawal El Saadawi's Memoirs from the Women's Prison |
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11:00-11:30 am |
Dr. Ishaq Tijani (speaker) Dr. Imed Nsiri |
University of Dubai, UAE American University of Sharjah, UAE |
Literary Radicalism: Layla al-‘Uthman as the Nawal Al-Sa‘dawi of Kuwait |
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11:30-1:00 pm |
Lunch |
Panel Two: Arab Women and Media Chair: Dr. Maher Bahloul, American University of Sharjah, UAE |
1:00-1:30 pm |
Dr. Wafa Thabet Mezghani |
University of Sfax and Aix- Marseille, Tunisia |
Tunisian Female Filmmakers: Cinema as an Action against Silence and Silencing |
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1:30-2:00 pm |
Dr. Maher Bahloul Ms. Amal Bahloul Ms. Wafaa Bardaa |
American University of Sharjah, UAE Lights, Camera, Learn! American University of Sharjah, UAE |
Empowering Young Arab Women through Filmmaking |
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2:00-2:30 pm |
Ms. Hadeel Eltayeb |
The Media Majlis at Northwestern University in Qatar |
Impossible Forms |
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2:30-3:00 pm |
Dr. Rafika Zahrouni |
University of Carthage, Tunisia |
Women in Theater as Actors of Social Change in Tunisia |
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3:00- 3:30 pm |
Break |
3:30-4:20 pm |
Prof. miriam cooke (Keynote speaker) |
Duke University, USA |
Nawal El Saadawi: Activist, Writer, and Physician.
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Panel Three: Arab Women and the Challenge of Tropes (Part One) Chair: Prof. Sanaa Benmessaoud, University of Sharjah, UAE |
4:20-4:50 pm |
Prof. Sanaa Benmessaoud |
University of Sharjah, UAE |
Bringing the Female Francophone Writer Back Home: The Case of Assia Djebar |
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4:50-5:20 pm |
Ms. Jana Amin |
Milton Academy, USA |
Princess Fawzia and
the Duality of Egyptian Women |
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Panel Three: Arab Women and the Challenge of Tropes (Part Two) Chair: Dr. Araa Al Jaramani, Leiden University, The Netherlands |
5:20-5:50 pm |
Dr. Dilyana Mincheva |
McMaster University, Canada |
El Saadawi’s Dissident Feminist Project: Legacy of a Double Struggle for Gender Justice and against Imperialism |
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5:50-6:20 pm |
Prof. Nawar Golley |
American University of Sharjah, UAE |
My Travels around the World: A Narrative of Freedom, Mobility, and Connection |
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6:20-6:50 pm |
Dr. Fadoua Loudiy |
Slippery Rock University, Pittsburgh, USA |
Saida Menebhi: A Poetic Discourse on Women's Rights |
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Time (London Time) |
Name |
Affiliation |
Talk Title |
Talk |
Video |
Panel Four: Narrative as Survival Chair: Dr. Sandy Hawa, Instructor, Lebanon |
8:30-9:00 am |
Prof. Mohamed Saeed Hasab El Naby |
MSA University, Egypt |
الذات الأنثوية المبدعة ديوان "مواويل الشجن" للشاعرة سميرة فرجي نموذجاً |
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9:00-9:30 am |
Dr. Shahla Ujayli |
American University of Madaba, Jordan, |
دور الحكاية الشخصيّة في صناعة (سرديّة) نسويّة عربيّة |
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9:30- 10:00 am |
Dr. Sandy Hawa |
Instructor, Lebanon |
محصّلة أطروحة الدكتوراه |
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10:00-10:30 am |
Dr. Araa Al Jaramani |
Leiden University, The Netherlands |
ما رح اسكت، الحراك النسوي السوري في زمن مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي |
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10:30: 11:am |
Break |
11:00-11:55 am |
Prof. Francesca Maria Corrao (Keynote speaker) |
LUISS University, Italy |
The Poetic of Maram al-Masri |
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Panel Five: Crossing the Frontiers and Breaking the Shackles: Arab Women in Different Contexts (Part 1) Chair: Ms. Golnaz Heidar Jamshidi, University of Manitoba, Canada
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11:55-12:25 pm |
Ms. Eman .A. S. Hijazi |
The Islamic University, Palestine |
A Psycho-Semiotic Analysis of Sahar Khalifeh’s Mudhakkirat Imra’a ghayr Waqi‘iyya |
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12:25-2:00 pm |
Lunch |
2:00-2:30 pm |
Dr. Leslie Vandeputte Mrs. Casiana Pascariu Ms. Karoline Molaeb |
American University in the Emirates, UAE American University in the Emirates, UAE American University in the Emirates, UAE |
A “deviant” choice? Emirati women married to non- Emirati locals: a legal and an anthropological perspective |
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2:30 – 3:00 pm |
Dr. Imene Chaabane Bennani |
University of Sousse, Tunisia |
Dying a thousand and one times: honor killing and the plight of rebellious Arab women in Emna Rmili’s Water and Embers
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Panel Five: Crossing the Frontiers and Breaking the Shackles: Arab Women in Different Contexts (Part 2) Chair: Ms. Weam Namou, Chaldean Cultural Center, USA
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3:00 – 3:30 pm |
Prof. Nagwa Soliman |
Faculty of Arts and Humanities, The British University in Egypt |
Fatma Mernissi’s
Double Critique of Arab and Western Views on Women. |
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3:30- 4:00 pm |
Ms. Weam Namou |
Chaldean Cultural Center, USA |
Preserving Her Story: Legendary Women of Ancient Mesopotamia |
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4:00 - 4:30 pm |
Ms. Golnaz Heidar Jamshidi |
University of Manitoba, Canada |
Hybrid Diasporic Identities as Cross-border Peacemakers in Morning in Jenin and Land of Dreams |
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4:30 - 5:00 pm |
Dr. Wijdan Alsayegh, |
University of Michigan, USA |
Arab Women Novelist and Racism: Buthaina Khudr Makki and Zainab Hefni |
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5:00 - 5:30 pm |
Prof. Linda Pappas Funsch |
Middle East and Islamic Studies, Frederick Community College, USA |
A New Dawn for Women of Oman |
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Closing Ceremonies and Farewell Prof. Kamal Abdel-Malek
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