ASWIC RESEARCH UNIT:
THE QASIM AMIN CENTENNIAL: TOWARDS A NEW READING OF THE WOMEN'S NAHDA DISCOURSES
In October 2001, the Egyptian Supreme Council for Culture convoked an international symposium on Qasim Amin and Women's Liberation. This was the centennial of the publication of the two controversial works on the subject that Qasim Amin had written, Women's Liberation and The New Woman. These works had also garnered him the grand title of "Women's Liberator" - Reviewing the state of the art a century later, the Council took the lead to mobilize for the event by sponsoring a grand project of translation of feminist works from English into Arabic. ASWIC was invited to participate in the conference organized to commemorate the event. The paper submitted proposed a new reading, an alternative reading, of the turn of the century women's discourses in a manner that would reset the horizon of liberationist discourses, to take in view an authentic nahdawi - revivalist perspective that appropriated the civilizational dimension...
The paper was co-authored by Dr. Mona Abul Fadl and Hind Shalakani - with Dr. Mona providing the elements of the new paradigmatic reading of turn of the century discourses, and Hind doing the empirical research with valuable text analysis substantiating the paradigm.
To view the paper, "Women's Nahda Discourse: Alternative Readings," in its Arabic original follow this link!
