WMF held a panel discussion of the book Traveling Through Egypt: From 450 B.C. to the Twentieth Century edited by Sahar Sobhi and Deborah Manley. The discussion was led by Ilham Zohni, Sayed Ashmawy and Sahar Sobhi.

 On the 11^th of January 2010 , WMF hosted a seminar  entitled Broken Taboos in post election Iran by Dr. Ziba Mir-Hossein. Dr. Ziba Mir-Hosseini is an Iranian legal anthropologist, specialized in Islamic law, women's rights and development, based in London.

 The seminar centered on the gender dynamics of the June 2010 presidential election in Iran and highlighted the egalitarian shifts in the politics of gender and a new "culture of rights" in post election Iran. An article by Ziba Mir-Hosseini, "Broken Taboos in Post-Election Iran", is available in Middle East Report Online: http://www.merip.org/mero/mero121709.html

WMF held a panel discussion of the book entitled Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet written by Mineke Schipper, professor of intercultural literary studies at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. The book was translated by Mona Ibrahim and Hala Kamal. The discussion was led by Sahar Al-Mougy.

WMF held a panel discussion of the book Al-Mara'h wa al-Hadduta  by Khaled abo Al-Lel, Assistant Professor of Popular Literature at Cairo University . The discussion was led by Professor Nadia El-Kholy, chair of the Department of English Literature at Cairo University and a specialist in children's literature.

WMF held a panel discussion of the book Women and Gender by Omaima Abou Bakr and Sherine Shoukry. The discussion was led by Nadia Abdel Wahab, Gamal El-Banna and Omaima Abou Bakr.

WMF held a panel discussion of the book In Praise of Books: A Cultural History of Cairo's Middle Class, Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century by Nelly Hanna, Professor of History at the American University in Cairo and translated by Raouf Abbas. The discussion was led by Raouf Abbas, Emad Abou Ghazi and Nelly Hanna.

WMF held a panel discussion of the novel Qit'a min Urubba (A Part of Europe) by Egyptian novelist Radwa Ashour. The discussion was led by Bahaa Taher, Sahar Sobhi and Radwa Ashour participaed in the discussion.

Qit'a min Urubba was published in Cairo by Dar al-Shorouk in 2003.

WMF invited Lucia Sorbero, a Ph.D. student and researcher in Venice University, to deliver a lecture on “The Effect of the Egyptian Women's Movement on the Italian Scene in the Twenties”. Lucia's field of interest is comparing modern Egyptian and Italian feminism between the two World Wars in issues related to reinterpretation of histories, the intersection with nationalism movements, and the relation to the state. She said that only recently in Italy there has been a growing scholarly interest in the field of Middle Eastern history and the history of feminism. One helping factor is the spread of translatlions into Italian of Arab women's cultural production and activism. In her talk, she specifically examined the historical and political context in Italy of the Egyptian women delegation to the 9th Internatlional Women's Suffrage Alliance Congress that was held in Rome in 1923, and thus attempted to show the mutual impact and intersection between the two feminisms north and south of the Mediterranean.

WMF hosted Dr. Robert Young, Professor of Culture and Critical Theory at Oxford University, UK. Dr. Young gave a talk on “The History of Women” where he discussed the position of women in the history of the anti-colonial movement, their contribution in the struggle against colonialism as well as the efforts of women campaigners after the anti-colonial movement. Young drew a comparison between the postcolonial theory and feminism as a political project concluding that postcolonial theory has much to learn from the history of the feminist theory.

WMF invited Linda Herera to give a lecture on “Gender and the Education of Muslims in Egypt” on January 2002.