Mona Ibrahim Ali

صورة
Organizations: Universities
Professions: Educator

PERSONAL INFORMATION


Professor of Literature

Mona Ibrahim Ali

CONTACT INFORMATION / WORK


Cairo University

Egypt

monaialy@aucegypt.edu

Education


Ph.D., Poetry, Cairo University, 1994.

M.A., Poetry, Cairo University, 1989.

B.A., English Department, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, 1984.

languages


Arabic

English

COMPETENCES


Literature

Poetry

Gender Training

Creative Writing

Storytelling

WORK HISTORY


Professor, English Department, Cairo University, 2011-Present.

Head of the Center for Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies, Cairo University, 2012-2015.

Published Translator.

Gender Trainer through Storytelling.

Honorary office and memberships


Member of "Ana El Hekaya" group, 1999-Present.

Member of the Group of Fighting for the Autonomy of Egyptian Universities (March 9th), 2005-Present.

Member of the Board of Trustees of the New Woman Foundation (NGO), 2010- Present.

Productions and Works


Editor-in-chief of Tiba, the New Woman’s Research Centre’s (NGO’s) theoretical magazine of gender issues. 2002- Present.

She has tens of papers presented in conferences and published in journals.

She has many translations under her name.

She has short stories published in What Shehrzad Did Not Say. Cairo: Women and Memory Forum, 2005.

AWARDS


A fellow of the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex University for the academic year 2011- 2012.

A travel grant from the American University in Cairo to present a paper at the Second World Congress of Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES 2) in Amman, Jordan, 11- 16 June, 2006.

Fulbright Grant to be the Middle East Representative of the New Century Scholars Program, 2004-2005.

Ford Foundation Grant to attend a summer course on Women Studies in Tehran, Iran. 2003.