Conference and Workshop Presentations

  • Centre for Research in The Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities. Workshop titled “Documentary Filming of Cultural Interaction”. I was respondent in the panel discussing “Seret Aravi” to Eyal Bizawe. University of Cambridge. 28th, 29th of November 2019.
  • Harif (Association of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa) and Spiro Ark annual public talk. Central Synagogue in London. 3rd of November 2019 “The Changing Image of the Jew in Egyptian Film and TV”
  • Discussion Guest at the UK Jewish Film Festival “A Song of Peace”. 10th of November 2019. London.
  • 8th Annual Conference on Israel Studies, EAIS 2019: Democracy in Challenging Times, Israel, Europe and the World. Charles University, Prague. 8-10 September 2019. Paper: Israel Studies or Enemy Studies? An Analytical Study of the Development of Israel Studies in Egyptian Universities
  • Communities,Clashes,andCohabitations:GroupPerceptionsfromNorthAfrica to Central Asia. The Institute of Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Munich (Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität). 28-29 June 2019. Paper: Israel Studies or Enemy Studies? An Analytical Study of the Development of Israel Studies in Egypt 
  • Grey Areas: Two Centuries of Wissenschaft des Judentums. Conference in Heidelberg, 16-19 June 2019. Paper: Israel studies or enemy studies? A study of the development of Israel studies in Egypt.
  • Hebrew Studies Public Talks, the University of Cambridge. 11th of June 2019. Paper: Between Stereotyping and Objectivity: The Image of Jews in Egyptian Film and Television.
  • The EAIS graduate workshop 2019. SOAS University of London. 17th of March 2019. Paper: Different Locations, Different Challenges: A Comparative study of the Challenges facing Israel Studies Between the Arab World and the UK Universities.
  • DMES Public talks, the University of Cambridge. 18th of October 2018. Paper: The development of Israel Studies in the Arab world: Cairo University as a Test Case.
  • The REEH European Journal of Hebrew Studies International Conference on Hebrew Language, Literature and Culture. Paris 8 University. Paris. July 2-4 2018. Paper: “Between Negativity and Positivity: Egypt in the Eyes of Hebrew Writers”.
  • The 34th AIS Annual Conference at Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies, University of California, Berkeley. CA. June 25-27 2018. Paper: “Incidents of Rape in the Old Testament and its Reflections on Modern Hebrew Poetry”.
  • Monthly talk at Bethshalom Reform Synagogue: Israel from an Egyptian Perspective (In Hebrew). Cambridge, UK. 29th of April 2018.
  • The 33rd AIS Annual Conference at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA. June 12 – 14 2017. Paper: “The Image of Women in Modern Hebrew Feminist Poetry: A Century of Evolution”
  • Middle East Studies, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies University of Oxford “Israel Studies as a Global Discipline” 29 May, 2017. St. Anne’s College, Oxford. Paper: “Israel Studies in Cairo University” 
  • The Central Board of German Jews conference “Centenary of the Balfour Declaration. Zionism – From Vision to Implementation” March 29 – 31 2017, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Lecture’s title “Arabs’ perspective on the Zionist project”.
  • The 31st Annual Meeting of the Association for Israel Studies (AIS) “Sustainable Israel: A Changing Society in the 21st Century” 2nd June 2015. Concordia university, Qc, Canada. Paper: “Israel Studies in Egyptian Universities Beginning, Development and problems: Cairo University as a test case”.
  • 3rd International Oriental Studies Centre conference “Values in Religions” 21 February 2015. Cairo University. Egypt. Paper: “Jewish Religious Values in Modern Hebrew Poetry between Commitment and Deviation: Rebecca as a test case”.
  • 21st International DAVO Congress of Contemporary Research on the Middle East. 25 – 27 September 2014. Cologne. Germany. Paper: “Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Reflections in the Light of Modern Hebrew Poetry: Sarah and Hagar as a test case”.