WMF organized a panel in the Berkshire Conference on The History of Women entitled “Revising Discourses in Arab Cultural History”. The panel aimed at presenting the issue of revising discourses especially in relation to women’s roles and the politics of the construction or representation of gender. Omaima Abou-Bakr and Hoda El Saadi’s research on women in medieval history unearthed historical material about the lives, careers and stories of women theologians and mystics. Sahar Sobhi looked at representations of Egyptian women by Western women within the context of imperial/colonial encounters. Rania Abdel Rahman examined women’s discourses on gender issues as presented in women’s journals at the end of the 19th century. Hoda Elsadda attempted a redefinition of the conceptual and cultural categories of nationalist, modernist and colonial discourses in the early 20th century.