Sherine Hafez
Biographic Data
| ID | 578562 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sherine Hafez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Hafez |
| SIGNATURE | HAFEZ S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Riverside |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7833-4770 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Uprising and corporeal resistance
Development and Social Change
This chapter discusses al-Hilal's work in a village called Mehmeit. The author accompanied a group of women who worked at Mehmeit to observe how they interacted with the village women, the nature of their projects, and their vision of development. There she saw how modern liberal principles of development and the imbricated values of the secular modern were applied on a grassroots level. The work of two women, Amal and Samira, at Mehmeit was desc…
An Islam of Her Own
As the world grapples with issues of religious fanaticism, extremist politics, and rampant violence that seek justification in either "religious" or "secular" discourses, women who claim Islam as a vehicle for individual and social change are often either regarded as pious subjects who subscribe to an ideology that denies them many modern freedoms, or as feminist subjects who seek empowerment only through rejecting religion and adopting secularis…
Gendered dissent in the Arab uprising
The events that followed the revolution of 25 January 2011 demonstrated the tenacity and resilience of gendered dissent and its centrality to collective action and civil disobedience, thus enriching the transnational feminist archive with the experiences and praxis of gendered revolutionary action. Paying particular attention to women’s activism during the uprisings in Egypt, this article focuses on the broader themes of gendered political resist…
The Tour-de-Force Scholarship of Saba Mahmood
Portrait of A Revolutionary
This essay examines the (re)production of the discourses of dispossession that frame women’s issues in the Arab, Middle East and Muslim majority world. Taking the case of revolutionary women in the Arab Uprisings as an example, the author traces the constructs of dehistoricization, disempowerment and western centric logic that underlies media coverage reports about women’s participation in public protest. The essay produces a counter narrative to…
Bodies That Protest
In what became a synecdoche for state violence and the abuse of military power during the Egyptian Revolution of January 25, 2011, the image of an unconscious young female body, stripped down to her jeans and bra and being dragged by her limp arms and viciously kicked in the abdomen by a soldier’s heavy boot, almost instantaneously occupied public attention. While the case of the “girl in the blue bra,” as she later became known (her real identit…
The revolution shall not pass through women's bodies
This article analyses the outcome of the Egyptian uprising on women's issues by focusing on women's bodies and the discursive ways by which they are constituted and constitute themselves. Three vignettes illustrate the centrality of female corporeality in the political transformations taking place post the 25 January revolution. While these 'feminine' bodies are disciplined and regulated through discourses of patriarchy, Islamism and secular mode…
Gender and Citizenship Center Stage
Sondra Hale’s deep and long-term relationship with Sudan has produced a substantial body of scholarship that has transformed the anthropology of gender in the Middle East. She argues in her work that a version of Islamic citizenship was articulated by Hassan al-Turabi’s Islamist government in Sudan in the 1990s to shape society’s notion of the ideal Muslim woman. This essay looks at Hale’s work on women’s citizenship in Sudan to examine the const…
Dónde quedó el pacto? Mujeres, masculinidad y el levantamiento egipcio
Dónde quedó el pacto? Mujeres, Masculinidad y el levantamiento egipcio
No longer a bargain
Although, according to eyewitness accounts, women made up 20 to 50 percent of the protesters in Tahrir Square, the events immediately following the Egyptian uprising revealed that women would not be part of the political deliberations between various contending parties and the Supreme Military Council in charge of the country. In this essay, I take a close look at the sociocultural dynamics behind the inclusion-dis-inclusion of women in the polit…
Feminism in Islam
Women Developing Women
Through an ethnographic account of a social reform project led by Islamic activist women in the village of Mehmeit in rural Egypt, this article analyses women's Islamic activism as a form of worship. Women's experiences of activism are at the centre of this account, which highlights their attempts to economically and socially develop a destitute rural community. Their development ideals mirror the embedded principles of liberal secular modernity …
The revolution shall not pass through women's bodies
This article analyses the outcome of the Egyptian uprising on women's issues by focusing on women's bodies and the discursive ways by which they are constituted and constitute themselves. Three vignettes illustrate the centrality of female corporeality in the political transformations taking place post the 25 January revolution. While these 'feminine' bodies are disciplined and regulated through discourses of patriarchy, Islamism and secular mode…
No longer a bargain
Although, according to eyewitness accounts, women made up 20 to 50 percent of the protesters in Tahrir Square, the events immediately following the Egyptian uprising revealed that women would not be part of the political deliberations between various contending parties and the Supreme Military Council in charge of the country. In this essay, I take a close look at the sociocultural dynamics behind the inclusion-dis-inclusion of women in the polit…
Women Developing Women
Through an ethnographic account of a social reform project led by Islamic activist women in the village of Mehmeit in rural Egypt, this article analyses women's Islamic activism as a form of worship. Women's experiences of activism are at the centre of this account, which highlights their attempts to economically and socially develop a destitute rural community. Their development ideals mirror the embedded principles of liberal secular modernity …
Uprising and corporeal resistance
Gendered dissent in the Arab uprising
The events that followed the revolution of 25 January 2011 demonstrated the tenacity and resilience of gendered dissent and its centrality to collective action and civil disobedience, thus enriching the transnational feminist archive with the experiences and praxis of gendered revolutionary action. Paying particular attention to women’s activism during the uprisings in Egypt, this article focuses on the broader themes of gendered political resist…
Gender and Citizenship Center Stage
Sondra Hale’s deep and long-term relationship with Sudan has produced a substantial body of scholarship that has transformed the anthropology of gender in the Middle East. She argues in her work that a version of Islamic citizenship was articulated by Hassan al-Turabi’s Islamist government in Sudan in the 1990s to shape society’s notion of the ideal Muslim woman. This essay looks at Hale’s work on women’s citizenship in Sudan to examine the const…
Feminism in Islam
Feminism in Islam
Women Developing Women
Through an ethnographic account of a social reform project led by Islamic activist women in the village of Mehmeit in rural Egypt, this article analyses women's Islamic activism as a form of worship. Women's experiences of activism are at the centre of this account, which highlights their attempts to economically and socially develop a destitute rural community. Their development ideals mirror the embedded principles of liberal secular modernity …
Dónde quedó el pacto? Mujeres, masculinidad y el levantamiento egipcio
Dónde quedó el pacto? Mujeres, Masculinidad y el levantamiento egipcio
No longer a bargain
Although, according to eyewitness accounts, women made up 20 to 50 percent of the protesters in Tahrir Square, the events immediately following the Egyptian uprising revealed that women would not be part of the political deliberations between various contending parties and the Supreme Military Council in charge of the country. In this essay, I take a close look at the sociocultural dynamics behind the inclusion-dis-inclusion of women in the polit…
Gender and Citizenship Center Stage
Sondra Hale’s deep and long-term relationship with Sudan has produced a substantial body of scholarship that has transformed the anthropology of gender in the Middle East. She argues in her work that a version of Islamic citizenship was articulated by Hassan al-Turabi’s Islamist government in Sudan in the 1990s to shape society’s notion of the ideal Muslim woman. This essay looks at Hale’s work on women’s citizenship in Sudan to examine the const…
Bodies That Protest
In what became a synecdoche for state violence and the abuse of military power during the Egyptian Revolution of January 25, 2011, the image of an unconscious young female body, stripped down to her jeans and bra and being dragged by her limp arms and viciously kicked in the abdomen by a soldier’s heavy boot, almost instantaneously occupied public attention. While the case of the “girl in the blue bra,” as she later became known (her real identit…
The revolution shall not pass through women's bodies
This article analyses the outcome of the Egyptian uprising on women's issues by focusing on women's bodies and the discursive ways by which they are constituted and constitute themselves. Three vignettes illustrate the centrality of female corporeality in the political transformations taking place post the 25 January revolution. While these 'feminine' bodies are disciplined and regulated through discourses of patriarchy, Islamism and secular mode…
Portrait of A Revolutionary
This essay examines the (re)production of the discourses of dispossession that frame women’s issues in the Arab, Middle East and Muslim majority world. Taking the case of revolutionary women in the Arab Uprisings as an example, the author traces the constructs of dehistoricization, disempowerment and western centric logic that underlies media coverage reports about women’s participation in public protest. The essay produces a counter narrative to…
The Tour-de-Force Scholarship of Saba Mahmood
Development and Social Change
This chapter discusses al-Hilal's work in a village called Mehmeit. The author accompanied a group of women who worked at Mehmeit to observe how they interacted with the village women, the nature of their projects, and their vision of development. There she saw how modern liberal principles of development and the imbricated values of the secular modern were applied on a grassroots level. The work of two women, Amal and Samira, at Mehmeit was desc…
An Islam of Her Own
As the world grapples with issues of religious fanaticism, extremist politics, and rampant violence that seek justification in either "religious" or "secular" discourses, women who claim Islam as a vehicle for individual and social change are often either regarded as pious subjects who subscribe to an ideology that denies them many modern freedoms, or as feminist subjects who seek empowerment only through rejecting religion and adopting secularis…
Gendered dissent in the Arab uprising
The events that followed the revolution of 25 January 2011 demonstrated the tenacity and resilience of gendered dissent and its centrality to collective action and civil disobedience, thus enriching the transnational feminist archive with the experiences and praxis of gendered revolutionary action. Paying particular attention to women’s activism during the uprisings in Egypt, this article focuses on the broader themes of gendered political resist…
Uprising and corporeal resistance
Sociology (12 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Politics (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Islamic Studies and History (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Islam (5 works)