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Rania Abdel -Rahman, assistant lecturer at Cairo University, was introduced to twentieth century creative women's writing and Other literatures in English during the MA Preliminary Year course at Cairo University. She developed an indelible interest and devotion to racial and gender politics and cross-cultural relations. Consequently, she chose to work on colonial discourse analysis and post-colonial women's literature in Queen Mary College in London University. It was also owing to her growing interest in the psychology of the oppressed and the oppressor/oppressed relationship, together with cultural hegemony and resistance that she chose to write her MA dissertation on dominant and subordinate relationships in Caribbean women's literature. It is due to her concern with gender and the history of oppression that she decided to work with Women and Memory Forum.
 
Nadia Wassef is an independent researcher who is interested in the study of gender. Up till 1996, she was a student of English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo. Eventually she felt that she wanted to work closer with the reality of women’s lives and her interests shifted to gender and anthropology. As well as her work in the Women and Memory Forum, she is a member of the Female Genital Mutilation Task Force, which is under the National NGO Commission on Population and Development (NCPD). She is also a member of the Salma Network, which is a network of organizations interested in combating violence against women.
 
Hoda El-Saady is a historian, specialised in the history of the Middle East, and well acquainted with the historiographical methodology and its various interpretive approaches. She did her Ph.D. in Islamic history with particular emphasis on the Rasulid period (626-858H/1229-1454AD). For four years, Hoda taught Arab History at the American University in Cairo (AUC); she currently teaches Arab History to foreign students at “Hedayat Institute for Arabic Studies” in Cairo. She considers her involvement with the Women and Memory Forum an opportunity to develop a new perception of the role and status of women in Islamic societies. The idea of re-reading history from a gender-sensitive perspective seems to her both stimulating and appealing.

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