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Nehal Elmeligy

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Contact Information

702 S Wright Street
3120 Lincoln Hall
M/C 454
Urbana IL 61801
PhD Candidate

Biography

I was born and raised in Cairo, Egypt and have been in the U.S. since 2016 for graduate school. 

Research Interests

Sociology of Gender

Feminist social movements 

Arab Feminist Studies;

Transnational Feminism/Gender&Sexuality

Queer Theory

Sociology of Emotions 

 

Education

In 2018, I completed an MA in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio.

In 2020, I completed an MA in Sociology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Highlighted Publications

1) On Fatal Chaos and Disruption, and Women in Public Space: Cairo’s Street Situation and the Murder of the “Maadi Girl” and the Single “Al Salam Doctor, published by the Civil Society Review in Lebanon

2) Airing Egypt's Dirty Laundry: BuSSy's Storytelling as Feminist Social Change , published in Gender & Society 

3) "Making a Scene: Young Women's Feminist Social Nonmovement in Cairo " in the Journal of Resistance Studies in a special issue on the decade anniversary of the Arab Spring.