Author

  • Sylvia Azmy

    A MA student in the Arab and Islamic Civilizations
    Department at the American University in Cairo with a concentration in
    Arabic Language and Literature. Sylvia's thesis focuses on migration
    narratives and literature of forced migration. She has developed an
    interest in queer theory and its applications to analyze Arabic
    literature. She works as a teaching assistant at AUC and translates
    critical texts about the employment of queer theory in reading
    Egyptian culture from English to Arabic.