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Humanities in the Arab World in Times of Conflict and Change
Oriental Hall, AUC Tahrir Square
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The report examines knowledge production in the humanities in the Arab world during the twenty-first century, with a particular focus on the transformative decade from 2011 to 2021. It offers a critical perspective on humanities research, monitoring and analyzing key trends, topics and intellectual contributions. It sheds light on remarkable achievements in humanities knowledge production over the past decade—set against the backdrop of the revolutionary movements of 2011—while identifying challenges faced by researchers and proposing key indicators and preliminary questions for further exploration.
*Attendance: This event is by RSVP and on a first-come, first-served basis due to limited capacity.
**Language: The presentation will be in Arabic with simultaneous English translation.
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Ahmad Dallal
President
The American University in Cairo
AUC’s 13th President Ahmad S. Dallal is an accomplished academic leader and renowned scholar with U.S. and regional higher education expertise. Dallal is the former dean of Georgetown University in Qatar and served as provost at the American University of Beirut (AUB) from 2009 to 2015. A prominent scholar of Islamic studies, he has taught at AUB, Stanford University, Yale University, Smith College and Georgetown University, where he also served as chair of the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies. Dallal’s leadership experience includes spearheading institutional transformations that have included everything from closing budget deficits and administrative process reforms to introducing key performance indicators and quality measures for academic programs and increasing scholarly production. Throughout his administrative experience, Dallal led the introduction of several dozen university policies, including overseeing Title lX compliance on discriminatory harassment. He also increased the socioeconomic diversity of the student body through scholarships and financial aid. With several decades of teaching, research and leadership at some of the top universities in the United States, Dallal is a seasoned expert on U.S.-style liberal arts universities and how they operate. Coupled with that is his extensive experience in the Middle East at both AUB and Georgetown University in Qatar.
Hoda Elsadda
Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cairo University
Hoda Elsadda is a professor of English and comparative literature at Cairo University, and activist for women’s rights and co-founder of the Women and Memory Forum (www.wmf.org.eg). She previously held a Chair in the Study of Contemporary Arab World at the University of Manchester (2005-2011), and was Co-Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of the Arab World (CASAW) in the UK. She was Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University in 2014-2015. Her research interests are in the areas of gender studies, comparative literature, and oral history. She is author of Gender, Nation, and the Arabic Novel: Egypt, 1892-2008 and co-editor of Oral History in Time of Change: Gender, Documentation and the Making of Archives.