Lina Ashour

Lina is an Egyptian feminist writer, speaker and community organiser. Prior to this project, she worked at SAGE Publishing in London for five years while completing her MA in Gender Studies at SOAS. 

She has also worked as a radio presenter and magazine editor in Cairo. She has a BA in Political Science and an MA in Journalism and Mass Communication from the American University in Cairo. Lina is currently a tutor at the History and Theory Studies department of the Architectural Association, teaching ‘Introduction to Decolonial, Queer, Feminist Theory’. 

She is also Graduate Teaching Assistant for ‘Gender theory and the study of Asia, Africa and the Middle East’ at the Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS. In her free time, Lina moderates a book club and community check-ins. She has also participated in a variety of panels and events at the Mosaic Rooms, SOAS, LSE, Central Saint Martins, Loughborough University, Dardishi Festival, the Architectural Association, Libreria, and a feminist assembly and political education workshop.

I am interested in the politics of knowledge production as they pertain to rural Egyptian women. I explore the coloniality of knowledge and how it is classed and gendered within the Egyptian context. I am also interested in the relationship between urban intellectual elites and the construction of the rural figure as a site of national metaphor and social policy planning.