Nehal Elmeligy- Master of Arts
- PhD Candidate at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Nehal Elmeligy
- Master of Arts
- PhD Candidate at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Writing my PhD dissertation
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Introduction
Nehal Elmeligy was born and raised in Cairo, Egypt. She is currently a Sociology PhD Candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) with a graduate minor in Gender and Women's Studies. She holds an MA in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA and an MA in Sociology from UIUC. For the time being, she is only interested in researching the lives of Egyptian women, with a focus on agency, subjectivity, feminist activism, and resistance.
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July 2018 - April 2020
July 2016 - April 2018
August 2004 - August 2008
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Publications (4)
This article is concerned with the issue of Cairene public space in light of various gendered
contestations to the historical construction of these spaces as, predominantly, cis-gendered
male. Extending Ghassan Moussawi’s (2020) analytical concept الوضع/ al-wad’ (the situation), I articulate وضع الشارع/ wad’ el share’ to mean “the situation in the...
In this paper, I examine alternative feminist activism and social movements in Egypt by analyzing BuSSy. BuSSy is a performance art group that hosts storytelling workshops and monologues of taboo and “shameful” personal stories that challenge societal and state-sanctioned normative discourses on femininity/womanhood and masculinity/manhood. Drawing...
This paper argues that some women in Cairo, Egypt are part of a feminist 'social nonmovement' that predates the 2011 revolution, where they 'make scenes', i.e. commit acts of everyday feminist resistance, by defying patriarchal control over their bodies and behavior in public space independently from one another, spurred by patriarchal oppression f...
This pre-print has now been turned into a publication in 2021 by Gender & Society.
The BuSSy Project, Egypt's version of The Vagina Monologues, has set itself on a challenging path that is interestingly very similar in nature to Second Wave feminism’s consciousness-raising endeavors. This paper draft goes in depth on the activities, challenges and...
