NPF Cycle 3 Fellows
The New Paradigsm Factory (NPF) Program is a writing fellowship that aims at facilitating and supporting writing and publishing by Arab activists and junior scholars.
The theme of the 2018-2019 Cycle of the New Paradigms Factory Program is "Gendered Resistance."
Selected fellows are mentored by experienced activist-scholars for the writing and publishing of essays that critically reflect on dominant debates and offer alternative paradigms on the theme of “Gendered Resistance.”
2018-2019 Fellows
Here are the selected fellows in the 2018-2019 cycle of the New Paradigms Factory Program:
Mai Abouldahab, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Egypt
Project Title: Portrayals of Power and Appropriation in Egyptian Women-Only Spaces
Imane Errami, Mohammed V University, Morocco
Project Title: Sexual Violence within the Marriage Institution
Mariam Mecky, Egypt
Project Title: Gendered Resistance: Young Feminists and the State in Egypt
Rasha Younes, Human Rights Watch, Lebanon
Project Title: Counter-Sectarian Resistance: Mobilizing Gendered Identities to Negotiate Sectarian Hegemonic Power in Lebanon
Nada Wahba, Population Council, Egypt
Project Title: Reproducing Masculinity: Exploitation and Resistance within the Moral Economy of Domestic Work in Egypt
Salma Abou Hussein, United Nations Population Fund, Egypt
Project Title: Non-Participatory Gendered Resistance: Reactions towards Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Abandonment Campaigns in Egypt
Salma Hantouli, Ministry of Social Development, Palestine
Project Title: Complete Empowerement of Abused Girls and Women in Palestine
Pascale Ghazaly, Beirut DC, Lebanon
Project Title: May Ziadeh - The Story of the Story
Mentors
Below are the mentors who will be working with the fellows on their projects during the 2018-2019 cycle of the program.
Hoda Elsadda is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cairo University and an activist for women’s rights. She previously held a Chair in the Study of the Contemporary Arab World at Manchester University (2005-2011), and was Co-Director of the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World in the UK. She was Carnegie Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University in 2014-2015. In 1995, she co-founded the Women and Memory Forum, an Egyptian research organization that focuses on the production of knowledge on gender in Arab cultural history. She is currently the Chairperson of the Board of Governance of the organization. Her research interests are in the areas of gender in Arab cultural history, women’s rights, and oral narratives.
Sawsan Abdulrahim is an Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Health Promotion and Community Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, at the American University of Beirut. She obtained her doctoral degree from the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Abdulrahim's research focuses on social inequalities and health, the social and cultural meanings of subjective health evaluations, and the structural conditions that influence the wellbeing of labor migrants and refugees. Her previous work has focused on the social determinants of health of Arab immigrants in the United States and migrant domestic workers in the Arab region. Currently, she is undertaking research on the health of Syrian refugee women in Lebanon, with an emphasis on reproductive health outcomes and early marriage.She teaches courses in health promotion theory, forced migration and health, and global public health.
Deema Kaedbey is a writer and researcher. She is the co-founder and the managing partner of the feminist organization in Beirut, the Knowledge Workshop. She is also a member and a co-editor of the feminist collective and webspace, Sawt al Niswa, where she publishes many of her writings. Her work explores queer feminist frameworks that construct alternative and inclusive histories of feminism in Lebanon and that examine connections between historical and present moments of women’s activism. She has a Ph.D. in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies from Ohio State University, and an M.A in English Literature from the American University of Beirut. Deema is also currently a consultant at the Arab Council for the Social Sciences, coordinating its Critiques of Power working group.
Maroua Marmouch holds a PhD in Social Anthropology and Ethnology from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in France (2015), following a Master in Cultural Anthropology in Italy (2011) and a Master of Philosophy in Tunisia (2003). Her research focuses on "sexual minorities" in a non-Western context, their visibility and their strategies of resistance. As part of her PhD, she conducted ethnographic research on an island of the Pacific Ocean, New Caledonia, and focused on transgender people. As an ACSS Postdoctoral fellow 2017-2018, her research focused on Lebanon and examined the ways in which women construct and negotiate their homosexual practices in Beirut. Her research is currently oriented towards strategies of mobilisation of sexual minorities in Lebanon, and the study of their recent visibilisation in the public space.
