Bodies Of Revolution: Gender, the State, and Violence in the Arab Uprisings
Past Event
Tuesday, September 8, 2015 6:00 PM EDT
Merten Hall, 1202
The Middle East Studies Program at George Mason University & the Arab Studies Institute present
Bodies Of Revolution: Gender, the State, and Violence in the Arab Uprisings
Featuring...
Sherene Seikaly (Egypt)
Tuesday, September 8 @ 6PM
Merten Hall 1202
George Mason University
Free and Open to the Public
Sherene Seikaly studies the gendered experiences and representations of the Arab body to reveal the stakes of state violence and revolutionary change. She explores how people like Muhamad Bouazizi and Samira Ibrahim mobilized their bodies as sites of revolutionary possibility, detailing both the lost histories of state gendered violence as well as the many attempts to confront and resist it.
