Shereen El Feki
Shereen El Feki (born 1968 in Oxford , England ) is a British science journalist. In her book Sex und die Zitadelle , published in 2013, she deals with questions of sexual politics in the Arab world.
life and career
Shereen El Feki grew up in Canada as the daughter of a Welsh woman and an Egyptian . She studied biochemistry and immunology at the University of Toronto ( BSc ) and the University of Cambridge ( MSc from Trinity College and PhD ).
El Feki was a Healthcare Correspondent for The Economist from 1998 to 2005 . From 2006 to 2008 she worked in Egypt as a television presenter in the program “People & Power” for Al-Jazeera . Until 2012, El Feki was vice chair of the “Global Commission on HIV and the Law”, which was set up in 2010 by the UN and UNAIDS . El Feki is one of the first TED Global Fellows and is active in the expert network of the Alliance of Civilizations . She is a member of the board of directors of “Meedan”, of the “Arab Foundation for Freedoms and Equality”, and she is one of the editors of the business magazine “Dinar Standard”.
El Feki lives in London and Cairo.
plant
El Feki is of the opinion that only those freedoms and human rights can be enforced in public life that have already been anchored in private life. Patriarchal conditions are a burden on relations between the sexes if reforms are not implemented. By this El Feki means political and economic reforms, but also educational reforms that are real. In 2009, for example, in a survey in Egypt, fifty percent of women said that their families had the last word on marriage decisions. In order to understand social contexts, one has to deal with sexuality. In the Arab world, too, sexuality is a key concept.
El Feki interviewed women and men living in Egypt about their sexual life over a period of five years. These surveys also took place in Tunisia, Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates and Morocco. Based on these surveys, El Feki published her results in the publication Sex and the Citadel. Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World analyzed and summarized.
Fonts (selection)
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Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World . Pantheon Books, New York 2012, ISBN 978-0-701-18316-5 .
- Sex and the citadel, love life in the changing Arab world . From the English by Thorsten Schmidt. Hanser Berlin, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-446-24152-7 Table of contents pdf .
literature
- Necla Kelek : Oriental lust . Review, in: The literary world , April 6, 2013, p. 1
Web links
- Literature by and about Shereen El Feki in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Shereen El Feki in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Short biography and reviews of works by Shereen El Feki at perlentaucher.de
- #Shereen El Feki , at the Berlin International Literature Festival , 2013
- Shereen El Feki , at Hanser Verlag
- Reinhard Jellen : Shereen El Feki: "The political and the sexual are bedfellows all over the world" , on Heise online , July 31, 2013
- sex and the citadel , Shereen El-Feki website
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Shereen El Feki: My Life in Media , at The Independent , October 2, 2006
- ↑ a b Short biography of Shereen El Feki at the Berlin International Literature Festival 2013.
- ↑ Reinhard Jellen : Shereen El Feki: "The political and the sexual are bedfellows all over the world" , at Heise online , July 31, 2013
- ↑ A Fig Leaf Is Dropped in Islamic Societies. 'Sex and the Citadel' , by Shereen El Feki, by Janet Maslin, The New York Times , April 7, 2013, review of her publication Sex and the Citadel. Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | El Feki, Shereen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Egyptian-British science journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oxford |