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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

  • Two women wearing traditional clothes leave a hospital building designed in Art Deco colonial style.
    "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
  • Two women are standing in a house lounge, looking into the shadow.
    "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
  • People walking through an indoor market.
    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

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