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 2021-2022 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.”
2021-2022 Fellows
Esraa Elsayed - Journalist and Independent researcher
Project Title: الصحافة كمقاومة جندرية: أخلاقيات التغطية الصحفية لقضايا العنف الجنسي
Rima Shubeitah - Independent Researcher
Project Title: النساءو السردية الوطنية الفلسطينية نساء في رأسهن وطن
Diana Magdy - Gender equality specialist and feminist researcher
Project Title: Everydayness as a Site of Gendered Resistance in Garden City: Revisiting Ethics and Methods in a Messy Field
Maram Tebini - Clinical psychologist
Project Title: Community kin-work as gendered resistance: the quest of subsaharan migrant women in Tunisia
Nouran El Marsafy - Independent Researcher
Project Title: Entry points; Working women’s lives in Aswaaq-Shai’biyya
Reem Cherif - Independent Researcher
Project Title: The Navigation Maneuver: How Women Access Greater Cairo Region with the Less Harms and the More Territorial Gains
Mukhtar Shehatah - Researcher
Project title: بينَ العارِ والشرفِ؛ صرحٌ للرجولةِ مُتخيلٌ
Hammoud Emejdel - Independent Researcher
Project Title: الذات والمجتمع في التاريخ الشفوي للنساء السوريات اللاجئات في لبنان
Heba Salah - Independent Researcher
Project Title: المرأة في المؤسسة الدينية بين إنتاج المعرفة وتأثير الصور النمطية
Rabab Kamel - Independent Researcher
Project Title: أسطورة العفة الزائفة: لا كرامة في البتر مقاومة تشويه الأعضاء التناسلية للإناث لم تضع أوزراها بعد