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Book Talk | Egyptian Made: Women, Work, and the Promise of Liberation with Leslie T. Chang

Book Talk | Egyptian Made: Women, Work, and the Promise of Liberation with Leslie T. Chang

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Date(s) - 03/19/2024
11:00 am - 12:00 pm

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The Middle East Program (MEP)’s Middle East Women’s initiative is pleased to host former Wall Street Journal journalist Leslie T. Chang for a discussion about her new book, Egyptian Made: Women, Work, and the Promise of Liberation.

Over the course of two years, Chang followed three Egyptian women who work in the textile and garment manufacturing industry. Through their lives and her own experience living in Egypt after the 2011 Arab Uprisings, Chang probes the risks and prejudices women continue to face in Egypt, the country’s reckoning with centuries of political upheaval, and the struggle with the demands of globalization as well as economic pressures at home as Egypt’s economy faces serious challenges. Interested in the ramifications of large-scale politico-economic trends on the everyday woman, she ultimately asks: “What happens to the women who choose to work in a country struggling to reconcile a traditional culture with the demands of globalization?”

Speakers

Leslie T. Chang

Journalist and author

Leslie T. Chang

Loubna Skalli Hanna

Visiting Professor, California University, the Washington Center (D.C.)

Loubna Skalli Hanna
Moderators

Faria Nasruddin

Program Associate

Faria Nasruddin
Introduction

Merissa Khurma

Director, Middle East Program

Merissa Khurma
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