"WMF members are united by their concern about dominant cultural discourses on Arab women circulating both regionally and internationally. These discourses, be they neo-colonial, nationalist or Islamist, feed on and fuel reductionist stereotyping of cultures, abstract cultural differences and diversity into an ideological culturalism, and are manipulated for political ends."
-Hoda Elsadda, Cofounder of the Women and Memory Forum
-Hoda Elsadda, Cofounder of the Women and Memory Forum
The Woman and Memory Forum was founded in the mid-1990s by a group of feminist scholars and activists in Egypt. It was founded on the belief that the "production of alternative
knowledge on women and gender in Arab cultural history constitutes the backbone
of a strong women’s rights movement in the Arab world" (Elsadda et al., 2010). Feel free to click on the works below to see what the WMF is doing to promote transnational feminist solidarity.
Here is Hoda Elsadda, co-founder of the WMF, speaking about some of the work that the group is doing around memory activism.
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