Women and Memory Forum
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The Women and Memory Forum (WMF) was founded in 1997 in Cairo, Egypt. The members are women academics, researchers and activists, trying to improve the weak position of Arab women in their culture.{{cite web|url=http://wmf.org.eg |accessdate=February 9, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100505113908/http://www.wmf.org.eg/ |archivedate=May 5, 2010 |title=الرئيسية }} WMF "research projects touch upon gendered representations in different historical periods with the aim of challenging some of these representations as well as producing alternative knowledge that could be used for advocating women's rights issues in contemporary Arab societies.{{Cite web | url=http://www.amews.org/review/reviewWomter04/RevisitingPopularMemory.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061015085946/http://www.amews.org/review/reviewWomter04/RevisitingPopularMemory.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=2006-10-15 |title = AMEWS - Association for Middle East Women's Studies}}
"Founded in 1997, Women and Memory Forum (WMF) uses art, research and literature to challenge traditional gender norms and cultural biases against women in current Arab societies. The group provides a crucial space for Egyptian women to come together and discuss cinema, feminist literature and produce creative publications."{{cite web|url=http://www.globalfundforwomen.org/cms/events/20th-anniversary/attending-grantees.html |title=Global Fund for Women - Attending Grantees |accessdate=2010-02-10 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011053926/http://www.globalfundforwomen.org/cms/events/20th-anniversary/attending-grantees.html |archivedate=2008-10-11 }}
Vision
"The WMF looks forward to a society in which justice and equal opportunities for men and women would prevail, a vibrant society capable of constantly producing alternative knowledge in order to reshape power relations within the different social structures in such a way that would support and maintain human dignity in the face of all forms of discrimination."{{cite web|url=http://wmf.org.eg/en/about_ngo |title=About the Women and Memory Forum | Women and Memory Forum |accessdate=2010-02-09 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100427050838/http://www.wmf.org.eg/en/about_ngo |archivedate=2010-04-27 }}
Goals
Research
Capacity Building
Advocacy
Programs
- The Gender Education Workshops
- The Translated Readers on gender in the social sciences and humanities
- "Who is She", a database of contemporary experts
- The Women's voices and archives
- Storytelling{{cite web|date=3 July 2008|title=Women and Memory: "I'm the Story"|url=http://www.www.opendemocracy.net/audio/jane-gabriel/by|url-status=dead|accessdate=February 9, 2010|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100209135204/http://www.opendemocracy.net/audio/jane-gabriel/by|archivedate=February 9, 2010}}
- Commemorative conferences to revive the cultural memory of the intellectual and activist role played by Arab women pioneers.
WMLDC
The Women and Memory Library and Documentation Centre (WMLDC) (in cooperation with the Egyptian Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Egypt (EUL) h .{{cite web|url=http://www.eulc.edu.eg/eulc/libraries/Index.aspx?fn%3DDrawInterFace%26ScopeID%3D1.105 |accessdate=February 9, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720131227/http://www.eulc.edu.eg/eulc/libraries/Index.aspx?fn=DrawInterFace&ScopeID=1.105 |archivedate=July 20, 2011 |title=اتحاد مكتبات الجامعات المصرية Egyptian Universities Libraries Consortium نظام المستقبل لإدارة المكتبات Future Library Automation System مكتبات مصر Egyptian Libraries }}
Publications
- Feminist translations{{cite web|url=http://sjoseph.ucdavis.edu/ewic/volume1.htm |accessdate=February 9, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100610074336/http://sjoseph.ucdavis.edu/ewic/volume1.htm |archivedate=June 10, 2010 |title=EW⁣ Volume 1 Arabic Translation }}
- Conference Proceedings
- Republished Works by Pioneering Women: "The Women and Memory Forum has republished the memoirs and writings of pioneer Egyptian women to demonstrate that women have been active publicly, have written from their vantage points and have been feminists. Such research and advocacy efforts show that feminist perspectives and demands were integral to Arab history".{{cite web|date=2 Dec 2008|title=Women contesting Islamist movements in the Arab world|url=http://www.awid.org/eng/Issues-and-Analysis/Library/Women-contesting-Islamist-movements-in-the-Arab-world|url-status=dead|accessdate=February 10, 2010|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090908033825/http://awid.org/eng/Issues-and-Analysis/Library/Women-contesting-Islamist-movements-in-the-Arab-world|archivedate=September 8, 2009}}{{cite web|url=http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/1999/429/bk7_429.htm |title=Al-Ahram Weekly | Not quite another country |accessdate=2010-02-09 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091118205055/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/1999/429/bk7_429.htm |archivedate=2009-11-18 }}
- Short Stories
- Children’s Stories
- Occasional Papers—research papers on Arab and Islamic cultural history, feminist theories and revising history.
- Illustrated books
- Women’s Voices Series
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110720132734/http://www.wmf.org.eg/en Forum home page]
- [https://archive.today/20110720131322/http://www.eulc.edu.eg/eulc/libraries/Index.aspx?fn=ChangeLang&Applang=E&ScopeID=1.105./ WMLDC home page]
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Category:1997 establishments in Egypt