Cairo University
The Thirteenth International Symposium
on
Comparative Literature
Tuesday 15th
- Thursday 17th
November 2016
Voices of/from Africa
at
The Department of English Language and
Literature
Faculty of Arts, Cairo University
edcu.edu.eg
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements 2
Symposium Organising Committee 3
Programme at a Glance 4
Programme in Detail
Tuesday, 15th November 5
Wednesday, 16th November 10
Thursday, 17th November 16
Index 23
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Acknowledgements
The Members of the Organising Committee of the Thirteenth
Symposium on Comparative Literature wish to thank Professor
Gaber Nassar, President of Cairo University for his help and interest
in promoting this important academic event. Our gratitude also goes
to Professor Moataz Abd-Allah, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, for his
continuous support. We are very grateful to Professor Amani
Badawy of the Department of English and Director of the Centre of
Languages and Translation for her great help and generous
contribution.
We are deeply grateful to the British Council and Mrs Cathy Costain
for the sponsorship of keynote speaker Professor Abdel Razak
Gurnah.
The valuable gifts of Longman cannot go unacknowledged. They
are deeply appreciated.
We would also like to express our gratitude to Professor Shams El
Din Haggagy and Dr Khaled Abu El Leil for their contribution.
Our thanks also go to Professor Mona Ibrahim and “Ana el Hekaya”
(“I am the story”) Group.
We would also like to thank Dr. Nevine El Kilany, Director,
Cultural Development Fund, Eng. Maged El-Raheb, Director,
Society for Egyptian Heritage Preservation, and Ms. Nada
Zeineddine, CEO, Let's Explore Egypt Society for facilitating the
use of the Amir Taz Palace for the event of the third day.
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Symposium Organising Committee
Chair: Ola Hafez
Coordinator: Hoda Gindi
Committee Members
in Alphabetical Order (by first names)
Abdel-Rahman Nasser
Abeer Aboulnaga
Abeer Omar
Abeer Salah Amin
Ahmed Hany
Amal Mazhar
Amani Badawi
Amani Wagih
Amira Fawzy
Aya El Shafie
Dina Amin
Galila Ann Ragheb
Hala Kamal
Hala Sami
Hala Yousry
Heba Bakry
Heba Elabbadi
Hebattallah Aref
Heidi Bayoumi
Hoda El Sadda
Iman Niazy
Ingy Hassan
Lamis El-Nakkash
Loubna Youssef
Mariam El Naqr
Marianne Nabil
Mohamed Abdel Aaty
Muhammad Kamal
Mona Abdel Rahman
Mona Ibrahim
Mona Mones
Mona Radwan
Nadia El Kholy
Nagwa Ibrahim
Nariman Eid
Noura El Abbadi
Omaya Khalifa
Pervine Elrefaei
Reem Eldegwi
Sahar El Mogy
Sahar Mashhour
Sahar Sobhy
Sally Hammouda
Salwa Eldemerdash
Samah Awad
Sonia Farid
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Programme at a Glance Tuesday 15
th November, 2016
9:00-9:30 a.m. Registration
9:30-10:30 a.m. Opening Session
10:30-12:00 noon Keynote Address I: Helmi Sharawy
12:00-12:30 p.m. Tea/Coffee Break
12:30-2:00 p.m. Session I
2:00-3:00 p.m. Lunch Break
3:00-4:30 p.m. Session II
4:30-5:00 p.m. Tea/Coffee Break
5:00-6:30 p.m. Panel I “Egyptian-African Relations and the
Nile Basin”
6:30-08:00 p.m. Event: Performance Storytelling
Wednesday 16th
November, 2016
9:00-9:30 a.m. Registration
9:30-11:00 a.m. Keynote Address II: Abdel Razak Gurnah
11:00-11:30 a.m. Tea/Coffee Break
11:30-1:00 p.m. Session III
1:00-2:00 p.m. Lunch Break
2:00-3:30 p.m. Session IV
3:30-5:00 p.m. Session V
5:00-5:30 p.m. Tea/Coffee Break
5:30-7:00 p.m. Panel II “Theatre: Different Manifestations”
Thursday 17th
November, 2016
9:00-9:30 a.m. Registration
9:30-11:00 a.m. Keynote Address III: Haggag Odoul
11:00-11:30 a.m. Tea/Coffee Break
11:30-1:00 p.m. Session VI
1:00-2:00 p.m. Lunch Break
2:00-3:30 p.m. Session VII
3:30-5:00 p.m. Session VIII
5:00-5:30 p.m. Tea/Coffee Break
5:30-6:30 p.m. Closing Session
7:30-9:30 p.m. Event: Sira Hilaliyya
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Programme in Detail
• 9:00 - 9:30 am Registration
• 9:30 - 10:30 am Opening Session Conference Hall
• 10:30 - 11:00 am Tea/Coffee Break
12:00 – 12:30 pm Tea/Coffee Break
Room 13 “African Shades for a Global Perspective”
Fernando Resende
Fluminense Federal University, Brazil
Amina ElHalawani
University of Perpignan/Tubingen, France
Iryna Sobchenko
University of Perpignan/Bergamo, France
Chair: Karma Sami
Room 14 Abeer Mohammed Raafat Khalaf
Assiut University, Egypt
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Conference Hall Keynote Address
10:30– 12 noon
شعراوي حلمي واألفريقيت انعربيت انذراسبث نمركز انسببق وانمذير األفريقيت انشئون في ببحث
حضور انفكر األفريقي في صراعبث انعونمت
Helmi Sharawy Researcher in African Studies
Founder and ex President, Centre for Arab and African Studies
“Africa: Colonialism and Global Neo-Colonialism”
Chair: Ola Hafez
12:30-2:00 p.m. Session I
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“Ethiopians‟ Voices of Resistance in Maaza Mengiste‟s Beneath the Lion’s Gaze
(2011)”
Amany ElSawy
Alexandria University, Egypt
“The Relations of Power in Wole Soyinka‟s The Beatification of Area Boy”
Pervine Yehia Elrefaei
Cairo University, Egypt
“„Bread, Freedom, Social Justice‟: Egypt‟s Cultural Politics of Food in the Post
2011 Revolution”
Chair: Hilda Matta
Room 15 Azzah Ibrahim
Zagazig University, Egypt
“Silence and Silencing in Some of Doris Lessing's Selected Characters”
Basant Sayed Mohamed Moustafa
Tanta University, Egypt
“A Stylistic and Content Analysis of Coetzee‟s Disgrace and Gordimer‟s My
Son’s Story”
Wesam Mohamed Abdel-Khalek Ibrahim
Tanta University, Egypt
“Africa as Seen by Africans: the Construction of 'Africa' in a Selection of
Novels/Memoirs by African Authors (A corpus-based Study)”
Chair: Amani Badawy
Room 16 Soad Mohammad Ali Mostafa Negm Tanta University, Egypt
“The Voice of Tradition Versus the Voice of Modernity in Okot p‟Bitek‟s poetry”
Sayed Sadek
Port Said University, Egypt
“Honoring African Women in Mugo's My Mother's Poem and Other Songs”
Amani Wagih Abd AlHalim
Cairo University, Egypt
“Possibilities of Hope: The Future Resides in the Past”
Chair: Sally Hammouda
Conference Hall Ibrahim Shehu
Cairo University, Egypt
“Travel Narratives: A Glance at Select Hausa Plays (Shaihu Umar, Turbar
Turabulus & Turbar Kudus)”
Sebastian Gadomski
Jageillonian University in Cracow, Poland
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“The Trilogy of Future Memory – Tunisian Reality in Theatrical Vision of Jalila
Baccar and Fadhel Jaibi”
Ne'am Abd Al-Hafeez
Minia University, Egypt
“Living to tell the story: Aminatta Forna‟s The Devil That Danced on the Water: A
Daughter Memoir and Saro-Wiwa Noo‟s Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in
Nigeria”
Chair: Hoda Ayyad
2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Lunch Break
Room 13 Hoda El-hadary
The British University in Egypt
“Zar Performance: Elements of Theatricality”
Emmanuel Samuel Nigeria “The Cultural Heritage of Africa”
Fatma S. Ismail
Helwan University, Egypt
“Triangulated Investigation of the Persuasive Effect of Metadiscourse Markers in
Arabic Opinion Pieces”
Chair: Hoda Gindi
Room 14 Supriya Daniel IIT Bombay, India
“Voices from past and present in Syl Cheney- Coker‟s Sacred River”
Nivin El Asdoudi
University of Alexandria, Egypt
“Africa, the Magical Realm of Water Spirits: Reading into Nubian and Igbo Belief
Systems”
Ghada Mohamad Alakhdar
MSA University, Egypt “Facebook Mode: Mediating Heritage, Shared-ness and Sociability”
Chair: Faten Morsy
Room 15 Riham Fouad Mohammed Ahmed
Aswan University, Egypt
3:00 – 4:30 p.m. Session II
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“African-American heritage as a symbol of identity in Zora Neale Hurston‟s Novels”
Sally Michael Hanna
6 October University, Egypt
“Representations/ Exaltations of the Dark Continent in African American
Literature”
Hala Gamal Sami
Cairo University, Egypt
“‟Knocking at the Door of Hell‟: Representations of Authority and the Subversion
of Terror in Selected Works of African Dystopian Fiction”
Chair: Salwa Demerdash
Room 16 Heba Hassan El-Abbadi Cairo University, Egypt
“„In helping them, we also help man‟: A Critical Animal Study of Nicholas
Ellenbogen‟s Horn of Sorrow and Guardians of Eden”
Asmaa Omar Bakr Mohamed
6 October University, Egypt
“Cultural Dislocation of African Immigrants in Bola Agbaje's Gone Too Far!”
Sally Abdel Aziz Hammouda Cairo University, Egypt
“Power Relations Front and Back Stage: Winds of Change from Egypt to Nigeria”
Chair: Amal Mazhar
Conference Hall
Lobna Mohamed Abdo Kheder Shaddad
Assiut University, Egypt
“Fear Appeal Effectiveness in Subjugating Modern-Day Teenage Bondservants:
Child Abuse in Mende Nazer‟s Slave (2003)”
Nader Moustafa Ahmed Helmy
Damanhour University, Egypt
“Islam and Feminism in Eastern and Western African Novels: A Comparative
Study”
Walid Samir Ali
Tanta University, Egypt
“Arabic Fiction and the Possibility of Change: A Study of the „Arab Spring‟
Fiction”
Chair: Mounira Soliman
4:30 – 5:00 p.m. Tea/Coffee Break
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5:00 – 6:30 p.m. Panel I
Conference Hall
"انعالقبث انمصريت األفريقيت ودول حوض اننيم"
“Egyptian-African relations and the Nile Basin”
Magdi Hegazi, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, Egypt
Shadia Qenawi, Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University, Egypt
Nourhan al-Sheikh, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University,
Egypt
Mona Omar, Ambassador, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Egypt
Moderator: Magdi Hegazi
6:30 – 8:00 p.m. Event : Performance
Room 65
Story Telling Performance
"أنا الحكاية" : روح وجسد
“I am the Story”: Body and Soul
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9:00 – 9:30 a.m. Registration
11:00 – 11:30 a.m. Tea/Coffee Break
Room 13 Magda Haroun
Ain Shams University, Egypt
“Buchi Emecheta's The Slave Girl: A Commitment to an Afrocentric Discourse”
Heba-T-Allah Aziz Selim
Cairo University, Egypt
“The Dual/Reversed Gender Roles of Egyptian Women: The Case of Safeyya in
Nehad Gad‟s The Bus Stop (1985)”
Eman Mohamed Nouh
Damanhour University, Egypt
“A Socialist Feminist Reading of Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen”
Chair: Randa Abou Bakr
Room 14 Nadia Abdulgalil Shalaby
Ain Shams University, Egypt
“Investigating Language Attitudes among Egyptian University Students”
Amany Youssef
Wednesday, November 16, 2012
Conference Hall Keynote Address
9:30 – 11:00 a.m.
Abdel Razak Gurnah Author, scholar and critic; Professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures,
University of Kent
“Reading the World”
Chair: Galila Ann Ragheb
11:30 – 1:00 p.m. Session III
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Helwan University, Egypt
“Rhetorical Moves and Syntactic Complexity across Africa: English Linguistics
Abstracts by Egyptian vs Algerian Researchers”
Chair: Amany Shazly
Room 15 Heidi Mohamed El Sayed Bayoume
Cairo University, Egypt
„Viewing Apartheid and Black Suffering through the Eyes of Children: A Critical
Study of Beverley Naidoo‟s Journey to Jo’burg”
Iman Naguib Ahmed El Saadany
Port Said Univeristy, Egypt
“Truth amidst Fear: A Socio-Political Reading of Beverly Naidoo's The Other
Side of Truth”
Rehab Mohammed Mahrous Moubarak
Cairo University, Egypt
“Nigerian Voices in Chinua Achebe‟s Children’s Stories”
Chair: Fadwa Abdel-Rahman
Room 16 Amal Mazhar
Cairo University, Egypt
“Decolonizing the African Stage: Ritual and Orality in Wole Soyinka's Death and
the King’s Horsemen and Shazly Farah's The Southerner”
Basma Abdel Hamid Abdel Aziz
Cairo University, Egypt
“Tracing African Heritage in Selected Plays by Georgia Douglas Johnson”
Samar Mohamed Mohamed Abdelsalam
Ain Shams University, Egypt
“Euripides Revisited: Marie Clements and Femi Osofisan Localize The Trojan
Women”
Chair: Mona Mones
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Conference Hall
Heba Makram Sharobeem
Alexandria University, Egypt
“Memory against Forgetting: Voices of Africa in Caryl Philips‟s Crossing the
River”
Enjy Kamal Ramadan
Helwan University, Egypt
“Michel Chikwanine‟s Child Soldier: Capturing a Refugee Child Experience in
the Congo”
Amira Fawzi Sadek Maqqar
Cairo University, Egypt
“Diaspora, Exile and Displacement in Hisham Matar‟s Autobiographical Novels,
In the Country of Men and Anatomy of Disappearance”
Chair: Sahar Hammouda
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Lunch Break
Room 13 Randa Aboubakr Cairo University, Egypt
“An Individual-Collective Struggle Against Uprootedness: Chenjerai Hove's „Red
Hills of Home‟ and Abdulrahman al-Abnudi's „Yamna‟”
Essam Abdel-Hamid Hegazi
Ahram Canadian University, Egypt
“ دراست في شخصيت انقريت عنذ عبطف عبيذ: في انبحث عه انقريت انمفقودة ”
Alyaa Saeed Bayoumy
Ain Shams University, Egypt
“Slow Violence and Environmental degradation: Forest of Palm Trees and What
Mama Said”
Chair: Sherine Abouelnaga
Room 14 Ashraf Taha Mohamed Kouta
Damietta University, Egypt
2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Session IV
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“Agency and the Body in Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Post-Colonial Reading
of J. M. Coetzee‟s Disgrace”
Silvia Elias
Pharos University, Egypt
“Neo-colonial Bourgeoisie Practices and Repressive Ideologies in Ngugi Wa
Thiong‟o‟s I Will Marry When I Want”
Nermine Ahmed Gomaa
Mansoura University, Egypt
“Revising Blackness: Revisionism in Katori Hall‟s Mountaintop „No Cross, no
Crown‟: Slavery as Redemptive”
Chair: Mostafa Riad
Room 15 Ola Hafez
Cairo University, Egypt
“Apartheid in Athol Fugard's Blood Knot (1961): A Political Discourse Analysis
of Racism”
Mona Eid Mohamed Saad Helwan University, Egypt
“From the “Beautiful” to the “Bold”: A Linguistic Analysis of Humorous Texts”
Amir Hamza Youssef Salama Kafr El Sheikh University, Egypt
“The Collocational Semiosis of "Africa" in the Academic Discourse of the Corpus
of Contemporary American English (COCA)”
Chair: Mona Fouad
Room 16 Sameh Saad Hassan Suez Canal University, Egypt
“Shadism versus Pan-Africanism in Bola Agbaje‟s Gone Too Far!”
Zakariae Bouhmala Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
“Beyond Blackness: Revisiting 'Africanity' in the Poetry of Senghor and El-
Faytoury”
Anna Abolela Hamed Ali
(Egypt)
“African Pagan Rituals Versus Christian Beliefs in Danai Gurira's The Convert”
Chair: Ghada Abdel-Hafiz
Conference Hall
“The Women Writing Africa Project: The Legacy and the Prospects”
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Amira Noweira, Alexandria University, Egypt
Nadia El Kholy, Cairo University, Egypt
Azza El Khouly, Alexandria University, Egypt
Sahar Hammouda, Alexandria University, Egypt
Heba Sharoubeem, Alexandria University, Egypt
Chair: Amira Noweira
Room 13 Mahmoud Abdel-Hamid Mahmoud
MSA University, Egypt
“Extending the White Frame: African Muslim Slaves and the Strategies and
Limits of Colonial Discourse”
Jacqueline Jondot
Universite Toulouse 2, France
“The Moor’s Account”
Inas Ahmed Al-Ibrashy
Ain Shams University, Egypt
“The Story/ Stories of a White Slave in Africa”
Chair: Heba Sharoubeem
Room 14 Nardeen Mohamed Nabil El Atrouzy
Ain Shams University, Egypt
“Afrocentricity in Wilson's The Gem of the Ocean”
Ghada Mohamed Abo Al-Makarem Sadaka
Tanta University, Egypt
“Fantasies as a Relief of Spiritual Fragmentation in Two Adapted Plays by Yussef
El-Guindi”
Samia Abou Alam
Helwan University, Egypt
“Performance of the Egyptian Absurd in Mahfouz's The Legacy and The Rescue”
Chair: Mona Ibrahim
Room 15
Galila Ann Abdel Moneim Ragheb
3:30 – 5:00 p.m. Session V
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Cairo University, Egypt
“Subverting the Myth of 'The Good Wife' in Two Contemporary African Short
Stories”
Thanis Bunsom
KMUTT, Thailand
“When Traditions Become Women‟s Weapons: Polygamy and Female
Empowerment in Paulina Chiziane‟s Niketche”
Eman Karmouty
Alexandria University, Egypt
“Tess Onwueme‟s Herstory of African Women”
Chair: Itaf El-Banna
5:00 – 5:30 p.m. Tea/Coffee Break
5:30- 7:00 p.m. Panel II
Conference Hall
Theatre: Different Manifestations
Asmaa Yehia El Taher Abdallah, Helwan University, Egypt
Zakaria Ibrahim, Director, Scriptwriter & Composer, Egypt
Hani Taher, Actor, Egypt
Mohamed Abul Fath, Actor, Egypt
Moderator: Maha Elsaid
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9:00 – 9:30 a.m. Registration
Keynote Address
11:00 – 11:30 a.m. Tea/Coffee Break
Room 13
Sherine Fouad Mazloum
Ain Shams University, Egypt
The power of Narratives in Selected Short Stories by Three Nigerian Women
Novelists
Hala Kamal
Cairo University, Egypt
Feminist Consciousness in African Women's Writing: Representations of
Femininity and Feminist Politics in Women Writing Africa
Sirivijit Pantrakul
Eastern Asia University
Senegalese Women‟s Rights to Vote in The Harmattan of Ousmane Sembène
Chair: Nadia El-Kholy
Thursday, November 17, 2012
Conference Hall Keynote Address
9:30 – 11:00 a.m.
أدول حجبج
٢٠١٣ المصري الدستور وضع نةلج في النوبة وممثل روائي
"األفريقي النوبي الجسر"Haggag Odoul Novelist; Advocate for Nubian Rights
“Nubian-African Bridge” Chair: Hoda El Sadda
11:30 -1:00 p.m. Session VI
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Room 14 Rola Alaa Koraa Misr International University, Egypt
Nubian Women in Diaspora: A Study of Idris Ali‟s Dongola
Velma Mohan
University of Kerala, India
Nigerian Women: Comrades in the Biafran War
Fatma El-Mehairy
Ain Shams University, Egypt
Danai Gurira's Eclipsed and Lara Foot Newton's Tshepang, The Third Testament:
A Theatre of War and Hope
Chair: Mona Bedwani
Room 15
Manar Medhat Shalaby
Cairo University, Egypt
The Image of Muslims in Three Political Speeches: A Corpus-based Critical
Discourse Analysis
Maha El-Seidi
Minufiya University, Egypt
Adversarial Questions and Evasive Responses in News Interviews Hosting
African and European politicians
Mayada Fawzy El Haddad
Helwan University, Egypt
A Voice from Africa to Africa: A Linguistic Analysis of Obama‟s speech in the
African Union
Chair: Nahwat El-Arousy
Room 16
Ralia Maijama'a Abdullahi
Bayero University Kano, Nigeria
“Conflating Food and Human: An Eco-Feminist Reading Of Flora Nwapa's
“Cassava Song”
Aida Jean Ragheb
Ain Shams University, Egypt
“Post-Colonial Representations of Africanity in Two Francophone Plays”
Hala Halim
New York University, USA
“Egypt Writes Back to Black Athena”
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Chair: Heba El-Abbadi
Conference Hall Emily Golson
University of Northern Colorado, USA
“The Yoke of the Colonial past or Paradigms of change”
Karma M. Sami Farid
Ain Shams University, Egypt
“Eugenic Imperialism: Mr. Rhodes‟ „Island‟!”
Loubna A. Youssef
Cairo University, Egypt
“„Decolonizing‟ the Minds of Children in North Africa (Egypt) and the South of
Africa”
Chair: Omaya Khalifa
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Lunch Break
Room 13 Ingy Aboelazm
Ain Shams University, Egypt
“The Multifaceted Nature of the Trickster Figure: The Transition from Folktales
to Twentieth Century African Literature”
Bashir Abu Sabe
Umaru Musa Yar‟adua University, Nigeria
“Developmental Views of Kano Market Literature towards Societal Change
Reem Mohamed Galal El-Degwi
Cairo University, Egypt
“Recollections in Exile: The Subversion of Memory in Athol Fugard‟s A Lesson
from Aloes and Salah Abdul Saboor‟s Musafer Leil (Night Traveller)”
Chair: Dalia Elshayyal
Room 14 Marwa Khalil Abdel-Aziz
Helwan University, Egypt
“The Repercussions of Civil Unrest in 1990s East Africa in Wambalye
Weikama‟s The Bonds of War”
Rana Mounir Elbowety
2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Session
VII
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Misr International University, Egypt
“Reimagining the Nation: Post-Apartheid South Africa in Coetzee‟s Disgrace and
Mda‟s Ways of Dying”
Hala Yousry Darwish
Cairo University, Egypt
“From Page to Stage: A Womanist Reading of South African Performance
Poetry”
Chair: Fatma El-Mehery
Room 15
Doha Mohammed Mostafa
Banha University, Egypt
“Moral Representation of Animals in Arabic and English Children short Stories:
A Cognitive Stylistic Approach”
Amira Ismail Qabary
Helwan University, Egypt
“Social media posts for and against the Tiran and Sanafeer Islands agreement: a
pragma-dialectical perspective”
Hesham Mohammad Hassan
Banha University, Egypt
“NSM-based Cultural Script Analysis of Biculturalism and Bilingualism in Ahdaf
Sueif's Works”
Chair: Shaker Rizk
Room 16 Hanan Sharaf El Dine Mohamed Ahmed
Misr International University
PhD Candidate, Ain Shams University, Egypt
“The Unspoken Words in African Artworks: A Visual Discourse Analysis
Approach”
Maha Samir Zaghloul
Helwan University, Egypt
“Visual Analyses of Egyptian Trailers: Commercial Vs Quality Films”
Chair: Iman Ezzeldine
Conference Hall
Mayada Medhat Fouad
Cairo University, Egypt
“The Image of the Other in Things Fall Apart”
Mohammad Deyab
Minia Universtiy, Egypt
“The Dialogical Self in Chinua Achebe‟s Things Fall Apart”
Sherin Abdel Ghaffar Mohammed Ahmed
Assiut University, Egypt
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“Complexities of Contemporary Africa: A Postcolonial Study of Sarah Ladipo
Manyika's Independence (2008)”
Chair: Soha Raafat
Room 13
Amany M. Elnahhas
Helwan University, Egypt
“Textual Reconstruction and Historical Consciousness in the Context of Post-
Revolution Egypt: A Rereading of Ahdaf Soueif‟s The Map of Love”
Nada Hegazy
Ain Shams University, Egypt
“Resistance by Storytelling in Radwa Ashour‟s Works”
Sara Hegazi
Alexandria University, Egypt
“„When Revolutions Turn into Long Day Dreams that are Lacking in Happiness.‟:
A Reading of Al Mubtasiroon by Arwa Saleh”
Chair: Pervine El-Refaay
Room 14
Fadwa Mahmoud Hassan Gad
Helwan University, Egypt
“A More Human Face”: Alternative Historiographies of Steve Biko‟s Story”
Nadia Hashish
Ain Shams University, Egypt
“Revisiting the History of Slavery: An Afro- centric Perspective in Joyce Hansen
and Sharon Draper”
Doaa Nabil Embabi
Ain Shams University, Egypt
Memory, Narrative and Transitional Justice: Public Testimonies Before TRCs in
South Africa and Morocco
Chair: Madiha Doss
Room 15
3:30 – 5:00 p.m. Session
VIII
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Ramy Ahmed
Cairo University, Egypt
“African Political Philosophy: A Comparative Ethnophilosophical Study of the
Concept of Justice”
Dina Mohamed Abd Elsalam
Alexandria University, Egypt
“Ancient Egyptian Heritage: Reverberations in Modern and Contemporary
Egyptians Arts”
Ignatius Chukwumah
Federal University, Nigeria
“Intermediality in Contemporary Nigerian Joke-Performances: The Gorgons's
Example”
Chair: Aida Jean Ragheb
Room 16
Amal Ibrahim Kamel
Fayoum University, Egypt
“In Her Own Voice: A Postcolonial Feminist Reading of Ama Ata Aidoo's
Anowa”
Somaya Sami Sabry
Ain Shams University, Egypt
The International federation for Theatre Research (Egypt/UK)
“Translating the Postcolonial Woman's Body: Corporeality and TsiTsi
Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions”
Sarah Yehia Ali
Helwan University, Egypt
“Text Worlds in Ngozi's Purple Hibiscus: A Feminist Stylistic Approach”
Chair: Nadia Shalaby
Conference Hall
Rasha Mohammad Saeed Mostafa
Modern University for Technology and Information, Egypt
“Semantic prosody of lexical items pertaining to Egypt 2011-2015 in the Corpus
of Contemporary American English (COCA)”
Nohayer Esmat Lotfy
MSA University, Egypt
“Identity and Humor: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Trevor Noah‟s Stand-up
Comedy Shows”
Eman Mahmoud Elesawy
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Minia University, Egypt
“Identity and Revolt under Colonization: An Ethnoliguistic-Cognitive Study of
Alfaytoury's Poetry”
Chair: Salwa Kamel
5:00 – 5:30 p.m. Tea/Coffee Break
5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Closing Session
7:30 – 9:30 p.m. Event: Sira Hilaliyya
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Index
(Alphabetically by first names)
A
Abdel Razak Gurnah 10
Abeer Mohammed Raafat Khalaf 5
Aida Jean Ragheb 17
Alyaa Saeed Bayoumy 12
Amal Ibrahim Kamel 21
Amal Mazhar 11
Amani Wagih Abd AlHalim 6
Amany ElSawy 6
Amany M. Elnahhas 20
Amany Youssef 11
Amina ElHalawani 5
Amir Hamza Youssef Salama 13
Amira Fawzi Sadek Maqqar 12
Amira Ismail Qabary 19
Amira Noweira 14
Anna Abolela Hamed Ali 13
Ashraf Taha Mohamed Kouta 13
Asmaa Omar Bakr Mohamed 8
Asmaa Yehia El Taher Abdallah 15
Ayman Shabana 9
Azza el Khouly 14
Azzah Ibrahim 6
B
Basant Sayed Mohamed Moustafa 6
Bashir Abu Sabe 18
Basma Abdel Hamid Abdel Aziz 11
D
Dina Mohamed Abd Elsalam 21
Doaa Nabil Embabi 20
Doha Mohammed Mostafa 19
E
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Eman Karmouty 15
Eman Mohamed Ahmed Nouh 10
Eman Mahmoud Elesawy 22
Emily Golson 18
Emmanuel Samuel 7
Enjy Kamal Ramadan 12
Essam Abdel Hamid Hegazi 12
F
Fadwa Mahmoud Hassan Gad 20
Fatma El-Mehairy 17
Fatma S. Ismail 7
Fernando Resende 5
G
Ghada Mohamed Abo Al-Makarem Sadaka 14
Ghada Mohamad Alakhdar 7
Galila Ann Abdel Moneim Ragheb 15
H
Haggag Odoul 16
Hala Halim 17
Hala Gamal Sami 8
Hala Kamal 16
Hala Yousry Darwish 19
Hanan Sharaf El Dine Mohamed Ahmed 19
Hani Taher 15
Heba-T-Allah Aziz Ahmed Selim 10
Heba Hassan El-Abbadi 8
Heba Makram Sharobeem 12, 14
Heidi Mohamed El Sayed Bayoume 11
Helmi Sharawy 5
Hesham Mohammad Haasan 19
Hoda Elhadary 7
I
Ibrahim Shehu 6
Ignatius Chukwumah 21
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Iman Naguib Ahmed El Saadany 11
Inas Ahmed Al-Ibrashy 14
Ingy Aboelazm 18
Iryna Sobchenko 5
J
Jacqueline Jondot 14
K
Karma M Sami Farid 18
L
Lobna Mohamed Abdo Kheder Shaddad 9
Loubna A. Youssef 18
M
Magda Haroun 10
Magdi Hegazi 9
Maha Elsaid 15
Maha El-Seidi 17
Maha Samir Zaghloul 19
Mahmoud Abdel-Hamid Mahmoud 14
Manar Medhat Shalaby 17
Marwa Khalil Abdel-Aziz 18
Mayada Fawzy El Haddad 17
Mayada Medhat Fouad 19
Mohamed Abul Fath 15
Mohammad Deyab 20
Mona Eid Mohamed Saad 13
Mona Omar 9
N
Nada Hegazy 20
Nader Moustafa Ahmed Helmy 8
Nadia Abdulgalil Shalaby 10
Nadia ElKholy 14
Nadia Hashish 20
Nardeen Mohamed Nabil El Atrouzy 14
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Ne'am Abd Elhafeez 7
Nermine Ahmed Gomaa 15
Nivin El Asdoudi 7
Nohayer Esmat Lotfy 22
Nourhan al-Sheikh 9
O
Ola Hafez 13
P
Pervine Yehia Elrefaei 6
R
Ralia Maijama'a Abdullahi 17
Ramy Ahmed 21
Rana Mounir Elbowety 18
Randa Aboubakr 12
Rasha Mohammad Saeed Mostafa 21
Reem Mohamed Galal El-Degwi 18
Rehab Mohammed Mahrous Moubarak 11
Riham Fouad Mohammed Ahmed 7
Rola Alaa Koraa 17
S
Sahar Hammouda 14
Sally Abdel Aziz Hammouda 8
Sally Michael Hanna 7
Samar Mohamed Mohamed Abdelsalam 11
Sameh Saad Hassan 13
Samia Abou Alam 14
Sara Hegazi 20
Sarah Yehia Ali 21
Sayed Sadek 6
Sebastian Gadomski 6
Shadia Qenawi 9
Sherin Abdel Ghaffar Mohammed Ahmed 20
Sherine Fouad Mazloum 16
Silvia Elias 13