Day Two
DAY TWO: 13th April
10.00-11.00 Panel: Literature, History and Personal History
Mohammed Afifi (Cairo), ‘Egyptian Youth and History in the Age of Globalisation’
Dalia Mostafa (Manchester), ‘Sona’allah Ibrahim’s al-Talassus: The Politics of Modernity in Colonised Cairo’
11.00-11.15 Coffee
11.15-12.45 Panel: Literature, Place and Space
Chair: Galila Ann Ragheb
Marilyn Booth (Edinburgh), ‘Spatial Imagery and the Critique of (Post-)modernity: The “House Novel” in Egypt’
Mounira Soliman (Cairo), ‘Artistic Interpretations of Downtown Cairo’
12.45-1.45 Lunch break
1.45-2.45 Panel: Literature, Gender, Nation
Hala Kamal, ‘Towards Women’s Studies: The Woman’s Section at the Egyptian University at the Turn of the Last Century’
Maggie Awadalla (Imperial), ‘Generational Differences in Egyptian Women’s Writing: Zayyat and Soueif, Finding a Common Ground’
Mona Ibrahim, ‘Rewriting Desire Between Two Generations’
2.45-3.30 Reading and presentation by Sahar Hamuda
3.30-3.45 Coffee
3.45-4.45 Readings by Rehab Bassam and Ahmed Alaidy
4.45-5.45 Readings by Khaled Al Khamissi and Bahaa Taher
