Oral History in Times of Change: Gender, Documentation, and the Making of Archives

Hoda Elsadda is professor of English and comparative literature at Cairo University. Hanan Sabea is associate professor of anthropology at the American University in Cairo.

1. Introduction by Hoda Elsadda and Hanan Sabea

Part One: Times of Change: Redrawing Boundaries of Knowledge, Memory, and History
2. Recuperating Women’s Memory as Knowledge: Sudan’s Conflict Zones by Sondra Hale
3. Women’s Activism and Contending Narratives of Liberation in South Africa by Noor Nieftagodien
4. The Production of Alternative Knowledge: Political Participation of Palestinian Women since the 1930s: A Case Study by Faiha Abdulhadi

Part Two: Intersections: Alternative Fields of History
5. Memory, Memoir and Oral History by Jean Said Makdisi
6. The Novel as a Repository for Oral and Women’s History by Rafif Saidawy
7. Palestinian Memory in Light of New Technology: Opportunities and Challenges by Nahawand El Kaderi Issa

Part Three: Ethical and Methodological Questions
8. Documenting the Oral History of Iraqis in Times of Conflict: Challenges, Ethics, and Standards of Practice by Lucine Taminian
9. Testimonio as Methodology: Archiving, Translating, and Theorizing Egyptian Women’s Experiences of Gendered: Violence in the January 25th Revolution by Manal Hamzeh

Part Four: Praxis: Entanglements in Two Projects Documenting Gender and Revolution
10. Narrating Gender in Egypt’s Public Sphere: The Archive of Women’s Oral History by Maissan Hassan and Diana Magdy
11. University on the Square: Documenting Egypt’s 21st-Century Revolution Project by Stephen Urgola

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