Sohayla El Fakahany
سهيلة الفكهاني
Sohayla is a PhD student, social researcher, medical anthropologist, and sexual and reproductive health and rights specialist, based in Cairo, Egypt. She worked as a research consultant at the American University of Beirut, and she is also a founding member of the East Mediterranean Federation of Sexual Health (EMFeSH). With her advocacy roles, she is focused on intersectionality, structural violence, and gender justice. Throughout her career, she worked on producing journal articles, technical reports, proposals, case studies, evaluation reports, and training manuals. Her research style merges theoretical and fieldwork approaches. She holds an M.A in Social Anthropology and a B.A in Political Science from the American University in Cairo.
Courses
Medical Anthropology and Doing Social Research
Study health, culture, and inequality while learning tools for person-centered social research.
Meaning Between the Lines
On Ideology and Discourse Analysis
Medical Anthropology and Doing Social Research: Amplifying Voices and Putting Theory into Practice
Making the Strange Familiar & the Familiar Strange
Investigating the Social behind Spirituality and the Unseen through Anthropological Fieldwork
