Bio
Walid El Hamamsy is Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies in the Department of English, Cairo University. He obtained his MA from The American University in Cairo and his PhD from Cairo University. His academic interests focus on popular culture, comparative literature, translation, and gender. His most recent publications include “Epistolary Memory: Revisiting the Traumas of Rape and Civil War in Women’s Writing” (Alif, 2010), a co-translation into Arabic of Thomas Jefferson’s Revolutionary Democracy (Saqi Books, 2011), “BB = BlackBerry or Big Brother: Digital Media and the Egyptian Revolution” (Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 2011), “Shooting Under Fire: Film-making and the Aesthetics of Resistance (Interview with Omar Robert Hamilton)” (Wasafiri; December 2012), and “‘Egypt .. isn’t that in Switzerland?’: American Cartoons and the Egyptian Revolution" (in Shifting Borders: America and the Middle East/North Africa, ed. Alex Lubin; AUB, 2014). He is the co-editor of Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa: A Postcolonial Outlook (NY and London: Routledge, 2013).