Women Resisting Sexual Violence and the Egyptian Revolution

Manal Hamzeh is a professor of Gender and Sexualities at the department of Interdisciplinary Studies of New Mexico State University. Manal Hamzeh’s teaching and research draw on anti-racist educational theories and decolonial feminist research methodologies. She is the author of Pedagogies of DeVeiling (2012) and co-author of the short animation film, The Four Hijabs (2016), with playwright Jamil Khoury, of Chicago’s Silk Road Rising Theater, Chicago.

• 1. Women’s Resistance in the Egyptian Revolution: Arabyya Feminist Methodologies2. Introducing the Three Shaahedat: Samira, Yasmine, Ola3. Shahada by Samira Ibrahim: Military-Sanctioned Kushoof El’uzryyah4. Shahada by Yasmine El Baramawy: State Security-Sanctioned Mob Rapes5. Shahada by Ola Shahba: Islamists-Sanctioned Sexual Assault 6. The Power of the Shahadat: A Legitimate Arabyya Feminism Methodology and a Strategy of Exposure and Resistance

'Manal Hamza provides an extremely powerful account of gendered violence and provides an original contribution to transnational and decolonial feminist scholarship by introducing "Arabyya methodologies".