أميرة الصيرفي

Amira Elserafy is passionate about both teaching and gender studies in the Middle East and North Africa. She holds two Masters degrees in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages and Middle East Studies from the American University in Cairo. She completed her thesis on the political activism of women affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood in urban Cairo between 2013-2016. In her research, she uses participant observation and interviews to explore notions of agency, Islamic feminism and political activism in relation to discourse about Middle Eastern women in Western scholarship. In addition to her interest in researching women’s activism in Egypt and the Middle East, she has a long teaching experience in both Egypt and the US.