Mehrez, Samia

Egypt’s Culture Wars: Politics and Practice

EUME-HKW Conference; DI/VISIONS: Culture and Politics of the Middle East, 2007

Samia Mehrez, Professor of Modern Arabic Literature at the American University in Cairo, has made cultural-political struggles in 21st century Egypt the focal point of her recent research. In her research, she employs the analytical approaches of cultural studies, translation theory and gender studies. Her latest publication is Egypt’s Culture Wars: Politics and Practice (Routledge, 2008). In 2011 she edited Translating Egypt’s Revolution: The Language of Tahrir.

Di/Visions critically examined ideologies and practices of divisions and borders in the Middle East. It was a joint project of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the research program Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe in the year 2008.

„Di/Visions. Culture and Poltics of the Middle East” was edited by Catherine David, Georges Khalil und Bernd Scherer and included a DVD with the conversations (Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2009). Since 2015 the edited volume has been available as an open access publication.

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