Hoda A Yousef
Biographic Data
| ID | 4084897 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hoda A Yousef |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hoda A |
| FAMILY NAME | Yousef |
| SIGNATURE | YOUSEF H A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Denison University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1720-3053 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Other Legacy of Qasim Amin
In Egyptian popular history and culture, Qasim Amin is often referred to the “father of feminism” or the “liberator of women.” However, this was not always the case. Upon his death in 1908, a different legacy emerged in many early eulogies, speeches, biographical sketches, and commemorations of Amin's life. In this early framing of Amin's legacy, his two most famous books were celebrated in ways that minimized the “woman question” while highlight…
Pleading for a place in modern Egypt
This paper examines the petitions of a poor woman, Jalila Saʿd, who sought educational opportunities and property from the Egyptian government between 1908 and 1913. Her interest in procuring a ‘place’ for her sons and her family in modernizing Egypt reflects the ways in which non-elites were able to participate in and move within the major physical and discursive public spaces of the era. This study argues that even those at the very edges of so…
Will Hanley. Identifying with Nationality
Will Hanley’s Identifying with Nationality: Europeans, Ottomans, and Egyptians in Alexandria is an exhaustively researched work on the sociolegal practice of nationality in the urban milieu of Alexandria in the decades proceeding World War I (1880 to 1914). Diverging from historiography of this period in the Middle East that is either directly or indirectly colored by the rise of nations and nationalism and their attendant social and political ra…
Composing Egypt
Composing Egypt
This book is a cultural and social history of Egypt from 1870 to 1930 that examines the way in which Egyptian men and women began reading, writing, and perceiving the Arabic language in ever more public ways. It argues that the emergence of modern Egypt was predicated on the changing literacy practices of the turn of the twentieth century, fundamentally altering the way audiences and writers related to each other, society, schooling, and the Arab…
Seeking the Educational Cure
This paper examines the development of European-style education in Egypt during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as Egyptian reformers and governments, in their desire to create relevant and effective educational institutions, began looking to Europe for inspiration. The resulting institutions utilized modern methods while preserving the local character of education, often straddling the line between the strictly European and Egyptian…
Malak Hifni Nasif
Malak Hifni Nasif (1886–1918), one of Egypt’s early feminist writers, stood at the crossroads of many political and social tensions of her day. Situated between the potential contradictions of Egyptian nationalism, Islamic reform, and Westernization, Nasif provides an important lens through which to examine the relationship between feminism and colonial enterprise in the tumultuous milieu of the early twentieth century. This paper contends that,…
Malak Hifni Nasif
Malak Hifni Nasif (1886–1918), one of Egypt’s early feminist writers, stood at the crossroads of many political and social tensions of her day. Situated between the potential contradictions of Egyptian nationalism, Islamic reform, and Westernization, Nasif provides an important lens through which to examine the relationship between feminism and colonial enterprise in the tumultuous milieu of the early twentieth century. This paper contends that,…
Reassessing Egypt's Dual System of Education Under Ismaʿil
The comprehensive attempt at school reform undertaken in Egypt in the 1870s is often depicted as part of a larger process of reform whereby “new” notions of education were irrevocably parting ways with the “old,” creating the outlines of a bifurcated system of education that pitted new modern/secular/government schools against traditional/religious/Islamic schools of Egypt's past. Far from a clean break or clear progression from old to new, howev…
Reassessing Egyptʾs Dual System of Education Under Isma ʿil
As a true litterateur of his time, Shaykh Husayn al-Marsafi composed his 1881 treatise The Eight Words as an elucidation of “the words that are constantly on the tongues of the people.” After commenting on the weighty political concepts of nation, community, government, justice, injustice, politics, and freedom, al-Marsafi ends his work with a lengthy discussion on tarbiya (education). Just months before the ʿUrabi Revolt, education occupied a vi…
Reassessing Egyptʾs Dual System of Education Under Isma ʿil
As a true litterateur of his time, Shaykh Husayn al-Marsafi composed his 1881 treatise The Eight Words as an elucidation of “the words that are constantly on the tongues of the people.” After commenting on the weighty political concepts of nation, community, government, justice, injustice, politics, and freedom, al-Marsafi ends his work with a lengthy discussion on tarbiya (education). Just months before the ʿUrabi Revolt, education occupied a vi…
The Other Legacy of Qasim Amin
In Egyptian popular history and culture, Qasim Amin is often referred to the “father of feminism” or the “liberator of women.” However, this was not always the case. Upon his death in 1908, a different legacy emerged in many early eulogies, speeches, biographical sketches, and commemorations of Amin's life. In this early framing of Amin's legacy, his two most famous books were celebrated in ways that minimized the “woman question” while highlight…
Malak Hifni Nasif
Malak Hifni Nasif (1886–1918), one of Egypt’s early feminist writers, stood at the crossroads of many political and social tensions of her day. Situated between the potential contradictions of Egyptian nationalism, Islamic reform, and Westernization, Nasif provides an important lens through which to examine the relationship between feminism and colonial enterprise in the tumultuous milieu of the early twentieth century. This paper contends that,…
Reassessing Egypt's Dual System of Education Under Ismaʿil
The comprehensive attempt at school reform undertaken in Egypt in the 1870s is often depicted as part of a larger process of reform whereby “new” notions of education were irrevocably parting ways with the “old,” creating the outlines of a bifurcated system of education that pitted new modern/secular/government schools against traditional/religious/Islamic schools of Egypt's past. Far from a clean break or clear progression from old to new, howev…
Reassessing Egyptʾs Dual System of Education Under Isma ʿil
As a true litterateur of his time, Shaykh Husayn al-Marsafi composed his 1881 treatise The Eight Words as an elucidation of “the words that are constantly on the tongues of the people.” After commenting on the weighty political concepts of nation, community, government, justice, injustice, politics, and freedom, al-Marsafi ends his work with a lengthy discussion on tarbiya (education). Just months before the ʿUrabi Revolt, education occupied a vi…
Malak Hifni Nasif
Malak Hifni Nasif (1886–1918), one of Egypt’s early feminist writers, stood at the crossroads of many political and social tensions of her day. Situated between the potential contradictions of Egyptian nationalism, Islamic reform, and Westernization, Nasif provides an important lens through which to examine the relationship between feminism and colonial enterprise in the tumultuous milieu of the early twentieth century. This paper contends that,…
Malak Hifni Nasif
Malak Hifni Nasif (1886–1918), one of Egypt’s early feminist writers, stood at the crossroads of many political and social tensions of her day. Situated between the potential contradictions of Egyptian nationalism, Islamic reform, and Westernization, Nasif provides an important lens through which to examine the relationship between feminism and colonial enterprise in the tumultuous milieu of the early twentieth century. This paper contends that,…
Seeking the Educational Cure
This paper examines the development of European-style education in Egypt during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as Egyptian reformers and governments, in their desire to create relevant and effective educational institutions, began looking to Europe for inspiration. The resulting institutions utilized modern methods while preserving the local character of education, often straddling the line between the strictly European and Egyptian…
Composing Egypt
Composing Egypt
This book is a cultural and social history of Egypt from 1870 to 1930 that examines the way in which Egyptian men and women began reading, writing, and perceiving the Arabic language in ever more public ways. It argues that the emergence of modern Egypt was predicated on the changing literacy practices of the turn of the twentieth century, fundamentally altering the way audiences and writers related to each other, society, schooling, and the Arab…
Pleading for a place in modern Egypt
This paper examines the petitions of a poor woman, Jalila Saʿd, who sought educational opportunities and property from the Egyptian government between 1908 and 1913. Her interest in procuring a ‘place’ for her sons and her family in modernizing Egypt reflects the ways in which non-elites were able to participate in and move within the major physical and discursive public spaces of the era. This study argues that even those at the very edges of so…
Will Hanley. Identifying with Nationality
Will Hanley’s Identifying with Nationality: Europeans, Ottomans, and Egyptians in Alexandria is an exhaustively researched work on the sociolegal practice of nationality in the urban milieu of Alexandria in the decades proceeding World War I (1880 to 1914). Diverging from historiography of this period in the Middle East that is either directly or indirectly colored by the rise of nations and nationalism and their attendant social and political ra…
The Other Legacy of Qasim Amin
In Egyptian popular history and culture, Qasim Amin is often referred to the “father of feminism” or the “liberator of women.” However, this was not always the case. Upon his death in 1908, a different legacy emerged in many early eulogies, speeches, biographical sketches, and commemorations of Amin's life. In this early framing of Amin's legacy, his two most famous books were celebrated in ways that minimized the “woman question” while highlight…
Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Islamic Studies and History (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Negotiation (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works)