A new Arabicast episode; an interview with Dr Sahar Al Mougy

We’ve broadcast today a new Arabicast episode on MEYArabic; an interview with Dr Sahar Al Mougy.

The interview was recorded during Ana Al-Hekaya (I’m the Tale) workshop, that has taken place at the AUC from 27 to 29th of December 2009.

The workshop, which is held annually since 1998, focuses on rewriting and renarrating the Egyptian folkloric tales from a feminist perspective. And involves youth writers; to increase their awareness about the feminist issues.

Listen now to the new Arabicast exclusively on MEYArabic, and you can also download it in an MP3 format.

The new Arabicast is mainly about the women’s role in the masculine society, and how to change this perspective throughout rewriting the folkloric treasures from a feminist view, and feminism here implies, as always, the equality between men and women. We debate also around the Neoislamism and its bad effects on women specifically, and on the society as a whole, the new social networks, like Facebook, and how does it influence accumulative change, and the bestseller cult.

Dr Sahar Al Mougy is an Egyptian renowned author and a lecturer of English at Cairo University. Writing from a feminist perspective, she articulates the conflict between the values of the west and traditional gender roles in the Middle East. She has published a collection of short stories and three novels, the most recent of which is Noon, named after the Arabic letter N. Taking in social issues in Egypt against the background of the global problems faced by Muslims in the time of 9/11 and Abu Ghraib, Noon is also notable for the high-profile media campaign (unprecedented in the Middle East) that accompanied its launch and the consequent selling-out of its first print run in the first week of sales; exposing the existence of a large Arabic reading population in Egypt and beyond.*

Worthy to mention, that MEYArabic has started broadcasting Arabicast episodes from last December, synchronously with celebrating our first anniversary, in style.

Listen to the Arabicast now!

* The biography is from here.

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