Abstracts, not more than 500 words, for a new, unpublished research are to be sent to the below email address no later than October 31,2011.
On the 13th of December 2010, the Women and Memory Forum hosted a seminar by Dr Diane Singerman entitled "The Costs of Marriage, Egyptian Youth, and Changing Gendered Norms: A Different Set of Questions for the Women's Movement?" Diane Singerman, an associate professor in the Department of Government at American University's School of Public Affairs, discussed and analyzed...
Cairo 15th of September 2010, the Women and Memory Forum held a launch event to announce the inauguration of its new database entitled, Who is She in Egypt? The event took place at the Supreme Council for Culture at the Opera House in Zamalek.
The Women and Memory Forum has recently published the first book of its new series of Readers on Gender in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The book is titled Reader on Gender and Political Science, edited by Mervat Hatem and translated by Shohart El-Alem. The book includes twelve articles and divided into two sections: Section I: Critical Perspectives from American Political Science...
On the 9th of May 2010 the Women and Memory and Forum's Translating Readers Project
From the 1st to the 8th of March the WMF attended the 54th commission on the Status of Women (CSW) held at the United Nations. This year's topic was the 15-year review of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995) and the outcomes of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly (2000). The WMF took part in two events. On the 4th of...