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Fadwa El Guindi
Published in 2005
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Fadwa El Guindi delivered many public, media and academic talks. Radio Indonesia aired a talk show in March on Dr. El Guindi’s book Veil: Modesty, Privacy and Resistance (now translated into Indonesian). The Television Channel NBN from Beirut devoted two hours of the well-known program al-Tarikh in Haka (History if it Tells...) in an Arabic interview with Dr. El Guindi, which was aired last February. Dr. El Guindi also commented in Arabic on the subject of pluralism in society for the American television program directed at the Arab World, al-Hurra Television. In addition, Professor El Guindi presented in Arabic at al-Hewar Center on “Insularity and the American Mind.” In April she spoke publicly on the politics of the veil at West Florida University. In upcoming months, Dr. El Guindi will give a plenary talk in Cairo at the 7th International Conference of the Arab Women’s Solidarity Association (AWSA) in May, at the invitation of Dr. Nawal El Saadawi. The title of her talk is “Hegemonic Feminism.” While in Cairo, she will also give a talk at the American University in Cairo, at the invitation of Professor Cynthia Nelson, in the Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies Lecture Series. Following the publication of her new book, Visual Anthropology, Dr. El Guindi was selected to give a keynote speech on visual anthropology in Spanish, at the X Congreso de Antropologia, to be held in Seville, Spain, in September. The title of her speech is “Back to the Future of Visual Anthropology.” At the end of May, Dr. El Guindi will also oversee a two-day workshop on “Arab and Muslim Americans: Culture and Politics,” in collaboration with The Arab American Institute, in New York at the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity (NCORE). She will then return to Los Angeles. Her farewell message to the CCAS faculty, staff and associated scholars, and to Georgetown University: “It was wonderful. I loved every minute of it. Thank you for having me.”
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