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SUMMARY:PhD Viva: Time\, Difference\, and the Transnational. Feminist Activ
 ism and Solidarities in Egypt and Tunisia
DESCRIPTION:Contact: joel.abdelmoez@cme.lu.se\n\nOn December 19\, 2025\, at
  10.15 a.m\, at Eden\, Lund\, Joel Abdelmoez &nbsp\;will defend the PhD th
 esis titled\, Time\, Difference\, and the Transnational. Feminist Activism
  and Solidarities in Egypt and Tunisia.Opponent: Prof. Laleh Khalili\, Uni
 versity of ExeterAbstract:This dissertation explores possibilities and cha
 llenges to the formation of transnational feminist solidarity in the Middl
 e Eastern context\, focusing on Egypt and Tunisia. In particular\, it asks
  howfeminist organisations balance the work towards building transnational
  alliances and support networks with the imperative to remain grounded at 
 the local level and centre local communities in their work\, while simulta
 neously shedding perceptions of feminism as a globalising\, Westernising\,
  or neo-colonial movement seeking to dismantle existing value-systems and 
 norms related to gender\, sexuality\, and family. The concept of solidarit
 y is investigated in relation to three “challenges”: the challenge of 
 difference\, challenge of time\, and challenge of the transnational. The d
 issertation posits that these challenges give rise to tensions which may b
 e productive\, constituting opportunity rather than risk—such as emergen
 t black and Nubian feminist groups shedding light on the marginalisation o
 f racialised women within the feminist movement\, or fragmentation stemmin
 g from a loss of intergenerational knowledge-exchange.Furthermore\, a lack
  of explicit engagement with these tensions constitute a risk which may hi
 nder feminists’ ability to mobilize across borders and ensure movement c
 ohesion and longevity. Using a triangulation of fieldwork\, textual analys
 is\, and digital fieldwork\, the dissertation uncovers how feminist groups
 ’ engagement with issues of difference\, their temporal practices and te
 mporal perspectives\, and their transnational interactions comes to shape 
 their work.\n\nMore information about the event: https://www.cmes.lu.se/ca
 lendar/phd-viva-time-difference-and-transnational-feminist-activism-and-so
 lidarities-egypt-and-tunisia
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LOCATION:Eden Auditorium (Allhelgona kyrkogata 14\, Lund)
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