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| 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) |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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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| November 8, 2020 | ||||||
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Panel Four: Narrative as Survival Chair: Dr. Sandy Hawa, Instructor, Lebanon |
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| 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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