Uploaded May 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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Keynote:
"Reading Nawal Zaynab's Mind in The Death of His Excellency," Shereen Abouelnaga | Cairo University

The Feminist Subject:

• Mohamed Tonsy (U. of Edinburgh), “How Nawal El Saadawi’s Narrative Structures Liberate Text from kitabat al-jasad”

• Jessica Frazier (U. of Rhode Island), “Challenging Feminist Stereotypes: Nawal El Saadawi’s Creation of Transnational Solidarity in the1970s and 1980s”

• L. Carspecken (Indiana U.), “Real and Imagined Lives: Immediacy, Possibility and Rebellion in the Memoirs of Nawal El Saadawi"
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Introduction by miriam cooke:
0:00 – 11:20

Introduction by Hind Zaki:
11:25 – 24:38

Keynote Shereen Abouelnaga:
25:00 – 1:02:00

Keynote Q&A / Discussion
1:03:18 – 1:27:15

Panelist Introductions:
1:28:10 – 1:31:44

Mohamed Tonsy:
1:31:45 – 1:55:40

Jessica Frazier:
1:55:47 - 2:11:40

Lucinda Carspecken
2:11-40 – 2:27:44

Hind Zaki Analysis
2:27:45 – 2:42:03

Q&A / Discussion
2:42:05 – 3:24:11

Conference Sponsors: Duke University Middle East Studies Center, UNC Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies, Duke Department of Asian & Middle East Studies, Association of Middle East Women’s Studies, Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, UCONN Humanities Institute, The University of Alabama, Counseling and Educational Psychology (CEP), Indiana U., Bloomington, Feminist Research Collective (FRC), and UMRAN Green Perspective Foundation