Bio
Rowa Nabil is a Lecturer and PhD candidate at the Department of English, Cairo University.
She concluded a master’s research project that examined protest songs as manifestations of youth artivism in the Arab world, highlighting the micro-mobilization function of artistic activism in the 2010-2013 popular movements in selected Arab countries.
Her current PhD research project proposes a transnational reading of self-referential prison narratives by women and men subjected to politically motivated punishment during the second half of the twentieth century in Egypt and the United States.
Her research reflects on prison memories, memory politics, public pedagogy, and politics of location with regards to geopolitical, gender, class, and race relations.
She currently teaches Cultural Studies at the Cairo University.