Rania Said, Testimonies of the Tunisian Revolution as Told by Women Intellectuals
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The Tunisia Office of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University invites you to:
"Testimonies of the Tunisian Revolution as Told by Women Intellectuals"
A Lecture by: Rania Said, Assistant Professor of Arabic, UMass Boston
Rania Said is an Assistant Professor of Arabic at UMB. Her research focuses on women’s life narratives as well as the city in SWANA art and literature. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature from Binghamton University and her Agrégation in English from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Tunis.
This presentation analyzes a number of testimonies of the 2010 Revolution in Tunisia that were written by Tunisian women intellectuals; namely the late Lina Ben Mhenni, Fatima Ben Mahmoud, Dalila Ben Mbarek Msaddek, and Hafidha Karabiben. It argues that these testimonies belong to the same network of Tunisian liberal thought born out of the 1970s old left. It studies the common features of this network: the attention to space, the eschewal of party politics, and the focus on the gendered body.
This event will be held in person. Admission free.