Founder

She is currently an adjunct faculty member at the Department of Arabic and Islamic Civilizations at the American University in Cairo (AUC). She received both her BA and MA from the American University in Cairo (1986&1990) and her PhD from Cairo University (1996) in Islamic History.  Her specialization or discipline is early and medieval Islamic history.

Hoda Elsadda is Co-founder and current Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Women and Memory Forum. She holds 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).

Iman Bibars has a BA and an MA in Political Science from the American University in Cairo (AUC), and a PhD in Development Studies from Sussex University in the UK. Iman is a regional expert with more then 20 years experience in the social sector of the Arab World and the Africa region. She has worked with many international agencies and NGOs, including UNICEF and Catholic Relief Services.

Rania Abdel Rahman is an assistant lecturer at the Department of English Language and Literature at Cairo University where she earned her BA in 1993. In 1996, she earned her MA in Modern English Studies from Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London, UK. She has participated in a number of national and international conferences on gender and women's studies.

Hala Kamal earned her PhD degree in 2003 from the Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University. Her thesis was entitled "Contemporary Immigrant Women's Autobiography in the USA.". She has also got a Diploma in American Studies, Smith College, USA (1999-2000); Women's Studies, having written a thesis on "Theorizing the Personal: Academic Women's Memoirs.

Sahar Sobhi Abdel-Hakim is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Cultural Studies at Cairo University. She has been extensively involved with research on Arabic and English travel writings. In addition, she is concerned with gender and women’s studies. Among her scholarly writings are Interpreting the Orient: Travellers in Egypt and the Near East, edited by Paul and Janet Starkey (2001) and Modernism and Postmodernism: East and West (2001).

Omaima Abou-Bakr is Professor of English & Comparative Literature at Cairo University. She received her education at Cairo University, North Carolina State University, and the University of California at Berkeley. She specialized in medieval Sufi poetry and comparative topics in medieval English and Arabic literature.