Hoda Elsadda is Co-founder and current Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Women and Memory Forum. She is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Arts, at Cairo University, Egypt.  She previously held a Chair in the Study of the Contemporary Arab World at Manchester University, and is Co-Director of the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World in the UK (www.casaw.ac.uk).  Prior to that she held the position of Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Arts, at Cairo University, Egypt. 

 In 1992, she co-founded and co-edited Hagar, an interdisciplinary journal in women's studies published in Arabic. She has written articles and edited books dealing with discourses on gender in modern Arab history, particularly in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

She is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies IJMES (2005- present); member of the Advisory Board of the Durham Modern Languages Series (2009-); member of the Middle East Panel in the British Academy (2008-present); Associate Editor of the Online Edition of the Encyclopedia of Women in Muslim Cultures published by Brill since 2006; Consultant Editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies, Second Edition,(2006-2009); member of the Advisory board of The Global Fund for Women; member of the Advisory Committee (2005-present), The Anna Lindh Euro- Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures (2004-2007); and member of the Core Team, The Arab Human Development Report, UNDP in 2003.

Publications

Books:

• 2002 (co-authored with others) Madkhal ila Qadaya al-Mar'a fi Sutur wa Suwar (A Beginner's Guide to Women's Issues). Cairo, The Women and Memory Forum, 277 pp.

• 2001 (co-authored with Emad Abu-Ghazi) Masirat Al-Mar'a Al-Misriyya: `Alamat wa Mawaqi,. Cairo: National Council for Women; trans. 2001 into English by Hala Kamal as Significant Moments in Egyptian Women's History, Cairo: The National Council for Women, 151 pp.

Edited Books:

● 2009 (edited with an introduction) al-Niswiyya wal Tarikh (Feminism and History), translated by Abir Abbas. Cairo, the Women and Memory Forum, forthcoming.

● 2009 (edited with an introduction) ‘Intaj al-Ma’rifa ‘an al-‘Alam al-‘Arabi (Mapping the Production of Knowledge on the Arab World). Proceedings of a conference held in Cairo in July 2007. Cairo, the Supreme Council of Culture, forthcoming.

● 2007 (edited with an introduction) Al-Fatah li Sahibatiha Hind Nawfal 1892-1892. Cairo, The Women and Memory Forum.

• 2004 (edited with an introduction) `A'isha Taymur : tahadiyyat al-thabit wal mutaghayir fil qarn al tasi' `ashar (Aisha Taymur: Challenges of Change and Continuity in the Nineteenth Century). Cairo, The Women and Memory Forum,197 pp.

• 2002 (compiled with an introduction) Aswat Badila: al-Mar'a wa al-`irq wa al-Watan (Alternate Voices: Gender, Race and Nation) trans. into Arabic by Hala Kamal Cairo, The Supreme Council of Culture, 492 pp.

• 2001 (edited with an introduction) Min Ra'idat al-Qarn al-`ishriyn: Shakhsiyat wa Qadaya (Women Pioneers of the Twentieth Century: Critical Essays). Cairo, The Women and Memory Forum, 339 pp.

• 1998 (edited with an introduction) Al-Nisa'yat(On Women's Issues) by Malak Hifni Nasef. Cairo, The Women and Memory Forum, 246 pp.

• 1998. (edited with others) Zaman al-Nisa' wa al-Thakira al-Badila (Women's Time and Alternate Memory). Cairo, The Women and Memory Forum, 390 pp.

Journals

• 1992-1998. (co-founder and co-editor) Hagar (Hagar: On Women's Issues). Cairo, Dar Sina 1993-1995; and Dar Nusus, 1996-1998.

 

Academic Journal Papers

-2007. “Imaging the `New Man': Gender and Nation in Arab Literary Narratives in the Early Twentieth Century” in JMEWS: Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 3.2 (Spring 2007)pp. 31-55.

- 2006. “Gendered Citizenship: Discourses on Domesticity in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century,” in Hawwa: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World 4:1 pp.1-28.

• 2001. “Discourses on Women's Biographies and Cultural Identity: Twentieth Century Representations of the Life of Aisha Bint Abi Bakr,” in Feminist Studies, 27:1 (Spring), pp.37-64.

- 2000. “`Motherhood' as Experience in the Poetry of Lorna Goodison,” in Cairo Studies in English, Cairo, Cairo University Press.

• 1995. “A Gender-Sensitive Reading of Latifa El-Zayyat's Sahib Al-Bayt,” in Cairo Studies in English, edited by Hoda Gindi, Cairo, The Department of English, Cairo University, pp. 25-48.

- 1994. "Crossing the Boundaries of Self in Grace Nichols' I is a long memoried woman," Bulletin of the Faculty of Arts, Cairo University.

• 1994. “Malak Hifni Nasef: Halaqa Mafquda fi Ta'rikh al-Nahda (Malak Hifni Nasef: A Missing Voice in the History of the Egyptian Enlightenment) inHagar No. 2, Cairo, Dar Sina, pp.109-119.

• 1993."Parodic Stylization as a Safeguard of Human Rights: Cultural Politics in Afro-Caribbean Writing," in Alif. No.13, Special issue on Human Rights, pp.106-127.

• 1993. "Al-Mar'a Mantiqat Muharramat: Qira'a fi `A'mal Qasem Amin” (Woman as The Territory of Taboo: A Reading of the Works of Qasem Amin," in Hagar No. 1, Cairo, Dar Sina, pp.144-160.

 

Book Chapters

- 2008. “Egypt,” Arab Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide 1873-1999. Edited Radwa Ashour, Ferial Ghazoul and Hasna Mekdashi, trans. By Mandy McClure. Cairo and New York, The American University Press, pp. 98-161.

- 2004. "Al-Kitaba al-`Ibda'iyya lil Nisa' fi Misr” (Women's Creative Writing in Egypt) in Thakira lil Mustaqbal: Mawsu'at al-Mar'a al-`Arabiyya (The Memory of the Future: An Encyclopaedia of Arab Women's Writings). Cairo, Nour and The Supreme Council of Culture, pp.7-59.

• 2004. “Tanaqudat al-Khitab al-Watani fi Mas'alat al-Mar'a: Qira'a fi Migalat al-Ustaz li `Abdallah al-Nadim” (Ambivalence in Egyptian National Discourses on `The Woman Question': A Reading of Abdallah Al-Nadim's Magazine `Al-Ustaz'”, in `A'isha Taymur: Tahadiyyat al-Thabit wa al-Mutaghayir fi al-Qarn al-Tasi' `Ashar (Aisha Taymur: Challenges of Change and Continuity in the Nineteenth Century) edited by Hoda Elsadda, Cairo, The Women and Memory Forum, pp.169-195.

• 2004. “The Meaning of a Prayer: Challenges to Cross-Cultural Understanding in a Global Age,” Keynote Address in the Conference on Culture and Power: Phobias, Tarragona University, Spain, October, 2002; published in Culture and Power: Phobias, edited by Cristine Andreu and Pere Gallardo, Tarragona, Silva editorial, pp. 15-34.

• 2003. “ Tashkiyl Tasawurat `an al-That: Qira'a `Adabiyya fi Sirat Kawkab Hifni Nasef,” (Constructing Representations of the Self: A Literary Reading of the Oral Narrative of Kawkab Hifni Nasef) in Al-Nisa' al-`Arabiyyat fi al-`Ishrinat Huduran wa Huwiyya (Arab Women in The Twenties: Presence and Identity), edited by Jean Said Makdisi and others, Beirut, Al-Bahihat, Al- Markaz Al-Thaqafi Al-Arabi, pp. 193-210.

• 2001. “Bidayat Multabisa: Azmat al-Huwiyya fi `Aqsam al-Luqha al-`Ingliziyya fi al-Gami'at al-Misriyya” (Ambivalent Beginnings: The Identity Crisis in Departments of English in Egyptian Universities) in Bahithat (Bahithat: Special Issue on Arab Universities), edited by Fadia Hotait and others, Beirut, pp. 195-222.

• 1996. (co-written with Mona Zulficar) “Mashru' Tatwiyr Namuthag `Aqd al-Zawag”(On Modifying the Marriage Contract”Hagar, No.3-4, Dar Nusus, 1996, pp. 251-263.

• 1996. “Women's Writing in Egypt: Reflections on Salwa Bakr,” in Gendering the Middle East, edited by Deniz Kandiyoti, New York, Syracuse University Press; London, I.B. Tauris, pp. 127-144.

 

Professional Journal Papers

• 2004. “Women in the Arab World: Reading Against the Grain of Culturalism,” International Politics and Society, 4 ( Friedrich-Ebert -Stiftung) pp. 41-53.

• 2003. `Disciplinary Entry on Oral History,” in Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Cultures, Vol. I, edited by Suad Joseph, Brill, pp. 389-393.

- 1996. “Women in Egypt: Education and Modernity,” inThe Self and the Other: Sustainability and Self-Empowerment, ed. Ismail Serageldin and Afaf Mahfouz, ESD series No. 13, Washington, The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/ The World Bank.

- 1991. "Towards a Department of English and Comparative Literature," in CDELT, Cairo.

 

Conference Proceedings:

• 2000. “Ru'yat al-Ragul li Thatihi fi Maraya Tasawuratihi al-Tamthiliyya hawla al-Mar'a: Qira'a fi Khitab Ruwwad al-Nahda,” (Male Perceptions of the “Self”: Representations of Women through the Eyes of Egyptian Pioneers of Enlightenment) in A Hundred Years Since the Liberation of Women, Proceedings of a Conference held in Cairo in 1999, Cairo, The Supreme Council of Culture, 2000, pp. 349-365.

-1998. “From Arabic Into English: The Politics of Translation in a Post-Colonial Context,” in Comparative Literature Studies, ed. Ahmed Itman. Proceedings of a conference organized by the Society of Comparative Literature Studies, Cairo.

• 1998. “Notions of Modernity: Representations of the “Western Woman” by Female Authors in Early Twentieth-Century Egypt,” in The Arabs and Britain: Changes and Exchanges. Proceedings of a Conference organized by the British Council in Cairo, Cairo, The British Council, pp. 352-366.

• 1996. “Tatawur Nathariyyat al-Sira al-Thatiyya: Matha Ta'ni bilnisbati li Kitabat al-Mar'a?” (Theories of Autobiography and Arab Women's Writings) Al Mar'a al-`Arabiyya fi Muwagahat al-`Asr (ArabWomen Confronting The Challenges of the Age), Proceedings of a conference organized by Nour publishers in 1995 in Cairo, Cairo, Nour, pp. 201-210.

• 1995. "Reconsidering the History of Feminism and Anti-Colonialism in Egypt: A Reading of Mounira Thabet's Memoirs,” in History in Literature, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Comparative Literature held in Cairo in 1994, edited by Hoda Gindi, Cairo, The Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, pp.449-464.

• 1993. "Cultural Encounters and Feminist Revisionism in H.D.'s Helen in Egypt," in Encounters in Language and Literature, Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Comparative Literature held in Cairo in 1992, edited by Hoda Gindi, Cairo, The Department of English, Cairo University, pp. 485-502.

• 1991. " Egypt as Metaphor: Changing Concepts of Time in Forster, Durrell, and Lively" in Images of Egypt in Twentieth Century Literature,Proceedings of the International Symposium on Comparative Literature held in Cairo in 1989, edited by Hoda Gindi, Cairo, The Department of English, Cairo University, pp. 199-210

 

Translations

• 1992. (translated with an introduction) Such a Beautiful Voice: Short Stories by Salwa Bakr, Cairo, GBO; India, Kali for Women, 1994, 85 pp.

- 1992. “Doves on the Wing,” short story by Salwa Bakr, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Middle East, Special issue edited by Anton Shammas, 31:4 (Fall) pp.520-524.

• 1990. (translated with an introduction) Evening Lake: Short Stories by Ibrahim Aslan, Cairo, GBO, 133 pp.

 

Other Publications:

• 1999. “al-Mar'a wa al-Thakira: Hoda Elsadda Muqabala ” (Women and Memory “An Interview with Hoda Elsadda) in Gender and Knowledge: Contribution of Gender Perspectives to Intellectual Formations, a special issue of Alif, No.19, pp. 210-230.