When:
Friday, January 22, 2016
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT
Where: 1902 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Jeff Cernucan
(847) 467-2770
Group: Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Co-Sponsor:
Program of African Studies
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Days after the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, an Islamic faith development organization launched a campaign to eradicate illiteracy. Drawing together the anthropology of religion and development, this talk will explore literacy activism at the nexus of Islamic reform and the effort to "build a new Egypt."
Nermeen Mouftah, Buffett Postdoctoral Fellow, completed her doctoral work at the University of Toronto in 2014. She is developing her doctoral research into a monograph that examines literacy development in order to investigate how activism for, and techniques of, literacy are imbricated in religious reform that shape public religion in post-Mubarak Egypt.
This is part of the Buffett Institute Faculty & Fellows Colloquium.