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Fulbright New Century Scholars Program
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Co-Chairs/Members: Mona Ali, Omar Sougou

Goal Statement:

To conduct a comparative study of the representation of women in Egyptian and Senegalese folk stories.

Next Steps:

• Compiling a collection of Egyptian and Senegalese folk stories.
  
  
• Analyzing the stories from a gendered perspective, tracing the different images of women presented in them
  
  
• Depicting similarities and differences in the stories in an attempt to reach certain conclusions about the space allotted to women in both the Egyptian and Senegalese cultures
  
  
• Presenting our findings in one of the following forums: African Studies Conference, African Literature Association, Conference of African Studies Association
  
  
• Publishing an English version of the paper in the Senegalese periodical edited by Omar and an Arabic version in Tiba, the magazine edited by Mona

Long-term Goal:

Producing two collections of the stories, one of Senegalese stories to be translated and published in Arabic and another of Egyptian stories to be translated into English and published in Senegal; both to include a gender sensitive reading of the stories in the introductions to the two volumes.