Professor Margot Badran

Senior Fellow, The Prince Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University and Senior Scholar, The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Margot Badran sees revolution as a complex process calling the public quest for gender equality and social justice from early last century as the ‘Long Revolution’. She approaches revolution not simply as marked by significant—and named—political revolutions but as the perennial struggle for transformation expressing social and cultural overhaul.

This talk centres on the continuing 2011 Egyptian Revolution (al-thawra al-musatmira) as a new generation of women and men engage in forms of creative activism displaying at once tenacious militant activisms and stunning aesthetic politics.

Margot Badran is a historian and gender studies specialist focusing on the Middle East and Islamic world. Her research interests include secular and Islamic feminisms, women, gender and revolution including diverse activisms and verbal and visual narratives. Publications include: Feminists, Islam, and Nation: Gender and the Making of Modern Egypt (Princeton University Press, 1995); Feminism in Islam: Secular and Religious Discourses (Oneworld, Oxford, 2009; and Women and Gender in Africa: Rights, Sexuality, and Law (Stanford University Press 2011). She is currently working on a book on revolutionaries in Egypt.

This event is supported by the Centre for Arab & Islamic Studies and the ANU Gender Institute.

Access: Free and open to the Public, acceptances appreciated

Contact: Centre for Arab & Islamic Studies by email or on 02 61254982.