Afaf Mahfouz
Who Is She
Personal information
Psychoanalyst and Human Rights Activist
Afaf Mahfouz
1938
Contact information / Private
Languages
Arabic
English
French
Contact information / Work
Education
Diploma, Psychoanalysis, Washington, 1985.
PhD, Legal Sciences, University of Paris, 1967.
MA, Public Law and Political Science, University of Paris, 1962.
BA, Law, Alexandria University, 1958.
Competences
Law
Psychoanalysis
Psychotherapy
Work history
Jobs:
Representative of the International Psychoanalytic Association to the United Nations, 1998-2009.
Former President, Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CONGO).
Assistant Professor and Director, Law Department, Helwan University, 1970-1987.
Honorary office and memberships:
Member, Board of Directors, Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace (WLP).
Member, Board of Trustees, Women and Memory Forum (WMF).
Member, Organizing Committee, NGO Forum, Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing.
Productions and works:
The Future of Prejudice: Psychoanalysis And the Prevention of Prejudice. NY: Rowman and Littlefield Pub Inc, 2007.
smail Serageldin and Afaf Mahfouz, Self and the Other: Sustainability and Self-Empowerment.World Bank Publications, 1996.
Joseph H Smith and Afaf Mahfouz, Psychoanalysis, Feminism and the Future of Gender. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1994.
Awards
French State Award, 1983.
State Merit Award, Best Doctoral Dissertation, University of Paris, 1968.
