Nariman Youssef

PhD student

School of Linguistics, Languages & Cultures,

Middle Eastern Studies,

University of Manchester

Contact Details:

nariman.youssef@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

Current Activities:

Thesis Title: Femininity and masculinity in translation: the Arabic press of the 1920s

Supervisors: Prof Hoda Elsadda and Dr Philip Sadgrove

My doctoral research analyses journalistic and literary images of masculinity and femininity in the Cairene press of the 1920s, and how these images fit within the vying strands of the modernist agenda of a nahda project that started in the nineteenth century and continued to set the parameters of debates about gender in the Arab world to this day. Further, the aim of my research is to problematize the idea of “European influence” on the Arabic discourses of that time, by interrogating the specifics of such influence as they were enacted through processes of translation in the press.

Research interests

• translation theory;
• modernity and the city;
• representations of femininity and masculinity in the Arab world;
• the inner workings of what we refer to as “cultural exchange”;
• the politics surrounding the representation of Arabic literature in Anglophone contexts.

Activities include

• Research work in the press archives in Cairo;
• Co-organising CASAW Annual Lecture which took place in Manchester, October 2009.

Professional memberships:

• British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES)
• International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS)

Qualifications:

• MSc with distinction in Translation Studies, University of Edinburgh, September 2008.
• MA in Cultural and Critical Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, 2005.
• BSc (Computer Science major), The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt, 1999.

Publications/Papers:

• “Riche Today: A Story of Cultural Heritization”, paper presented at BRISMES annual conference, Manchester, July 2009.
  

Forthcoming:

• “Post-1990s Riche: A Story of Cultural Heritization”, with Yasmine A. Moataz in Centenary of Riche (working title) ed. Abdel-Aziz Ezz el-Arab, American University in Cairo Press, Cairo.