Requiring Resistance - Life Against Carceral and Colonial Violence in Egypt and Palestine | Yasmin El-Rifae
Tue, Apr 08
|11am EST | villanova.zoom.us/j/3673047849
I will begin from a thread in Radius which connects reproductive justice to the militant feminist struggle described in that book, in order to consider social reproduction during revolutionary upheaval and Egypt's counter-revolutionary turn. Respondent: Jasmin Makhlouf, Duquesne University
Time & Location
Apr 08, 2025, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
11am EST | villanova.zoom.us/j/3673047849
About the event
I will begin from a thread in Radius which connects reproductive justice to the militant feminist struggle described in that book, in order to consider social reproduction during revolutionary upheaval and Egypt's counter-revolutionary turn. I will discuss Laila Soueif's ongoing hunger strike for her imprisoned son, the political prisoner Alaa Abdelfattah, as positioned in a regional context of the Israeli genocide and occupation in Palestine.
Speaker Bio
Yasmin El-Rifae is a writer and editor from Cairo. Her first book, Radius: A Story of Feminist Revolution (Verso in 2022) is about a feminist intervention group that worked on the ground during the 2011 revolution in Egypt. Her writing has recently appeared in Parapraxis and The New York Review of Books among other outlets. She is a codirector of The Palestine Festival of Literature.
