EUME
2009/ 2010

Sonali Pahwa

Theatres of Translation: Aesthetics and Politics of Performance in Neoliberal Egypt

received her PhD in cultural anthropology from Columbia University in 2007. She was then appointed a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the program Cultures in Transnational Perspective at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she taught in the departments of Theatre and Anthropology. In 2003 and 2004 she worked as a staff writer for the Egyptian Al-Ahram Weekly’s cultural pages.

Theatres of Translation: Aesthetics and Politics of Performance in Neoliberal Egypt

Currently she is writing a book manuscript titled Theatres of Translation: Aesthetics and Politics of Performance in Neoliberal Egypt, which examines youth theatre, drama workshops for self-help, and changing notions of performance during the era of transition from postsocialist to neoliberal cultural production. A second project on new women’s media in the Arab world, such as satellite television talk shows and Internet radio, investigates the gendering of space and construction of domesticity in trans-Arab public spheres.

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