Fields of Study
- Modern Middle East
- Women & Gender Studies
Areas of Interest
- Anticolonial History
- Labour History
- Gender Studies
- Critical Archives
Biography
Dina Fergani is a Jackman Humanities Doctoral fellow; SSHRC doctoral fellow and a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto studying History of the Modern Middle East at the departments of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations and Women and Gender Studies. Her research centers a rural Egyptian locality—Kamshish—and its relation to labour and gender. Using patch work methodology she weaves feminist methodologies of oral histories, memoirs, and personal archives to show how the tradition of anticolonial resistance in Egypt was a project of subject-formation through labour. Before that, she was an activist and news-producer in Cairo for two years where she covered events of the Arab Spring.
Education
- MA, University of Toronto
- BA, University of British Columbia
Current Supervisor(s)
- James Reilly
- Marieme Lo
Dissertation Title
Traditions that Endure: The Kamshish Rural Rebellion and the Tradition of Anti-Colonial Resistance in Egypt (1952-1970)
Teaching Experience
- Introduction to the Modern Middle East (NMC 278)
- Gender and Sexuality in Premodern Arabic Literature (NMC 357)
- Introductory Arabic (NML 110)