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Cairo University The Thirteenth International Symposium on Comparative Literature Tuesday 15 th - Thursday 17 th 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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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

1

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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

9

“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

13

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

15

“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

17

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

21

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

22

“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

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Sirivijit Pantrakul 16

Soad Mohammad Ali Mostafa Nigm 6

Somaya Sami Sabry 21

Supriya Daniel 7

T

Thanis Bunsom 15

V

Velma Mohan 17

W

Walid Samir Ali 8

Wesam Mohamed Abdel-Khalek Ibrahim 6

Z

Zakaria Ibrahim 15

Zakariae Bouhmala 13