Amany Alsiefy

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Dr. Amany Alsiefy is an author and lecturer at the Centre for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies at Humboldt University in Berlin. Her research interests include postcolonial literature, gender studies, fashion theory and the debate on secularization. She is the author of the book "Modern Egyptian Women, Fashion and Faith: Discourses and Representations" (2023). She also works as an editor of the journal “Open Cultural Studies” and is a board member of the Ibn Rushd Foundation in Germany.

Most recent articles by Amany Alsiefy

Egyptian feminist Nawal El Saadawi

"Intersectional long before the term was coined"

A seminal feminist text by Nawal El Saadawi has been translated into English and German for the first time, over five decades after it first appeared in Arabic. Publisher and translator Sophie Haesen explains why it should be essential reading worldwide.
By Amany Alsiefy
"Dis-orienting the Maghreb" by Sadik Rddad

Plural identities in colonial Morocco

In his new book, Moroccan scholar Sadik Rddad revisits colonial-era British and American travel writing, challenging Edward Said's view of Orientalism and its flattening of Maghrebi identities.
By Amany Alsiefy
"Fighting the Flow" by Algerian author Saïd Khatibi

The weight of colonial memory

Saïd Khatibi's "Fighting the Flow" explores French colonialism's violent legacy in Algerian society after the War of Liberation. The novel poses the question: can individuals liberate themselves from their past?
By Amany Alsiefy
Bushra Khalfan's "Dilshad"

Three generations of Omani history

Bushra Khalfan's award-winning "Dilshad" traces the story of one family through 20th-century Oman, shedding light on the untold stories of marginalised women and their fight for agency.
By Amany Alsiefy

"Intersectional long before the term was coined"

Plural identities in colonial Morocco

The weight of colonial memory

Three generations of Omani history