Hoda Elsadda is an academic and women’s rights activist. She is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Cairo. She is co-founder and current Chair of the Board of the Women and Memory Forum , and is author of Gender, Nation and the Arabic Novel :Egypt 1892-2008 (Syracuse University Press and Edinburgh University Press, 2012).
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Published in: 50.50Article 11: feminists negotiating power in EgyptFaced with unequal power relations at the negotiating table and authoritarian consolidation, a member of the...
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Published in: 50.50A war against women: The CSW declaration and the Muslim Brotherhood riposte
The statement issued by the Muslim Brotherhood in response to the UN Commission on the Status of Women draft Agreed...
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Published in: 50.50Narrating the Arab spring from within
What are the evolving narratives of the Arab Spring? Hoda Elsadda reports from a conference in Cairo examining the...
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Published in: 50.50Egypt: the battle over hope and morale
The deliberate attempt to discredit women's rights by associating them with the ex- first lady Suzanne Mubarak is a...