Hoda Elsadda is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cairo University, and co-founder of the Women and Memory Forum (www.wmf.org.eg). She previously held a Chair in the Study of the Contemporary Arab World at the University of Manchester (2005-2011) and was co-Director of the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World in the UK. She is author of Gender, Nation and the Arabic Novel: Egypt: 1892-2008 (Edinburgh UP and Syracuse UP, 2012); translated into Arabic by Hala Kamal and published by The Supreme Council of Translation in Cairo, 2020; co-editor of Oral History in Times of Change: Gender, Documentation and the Making of Archives (Cairo Papers, 35:1, 2018); author of Humanities in the Arab World in Times of Conflict and Change (Beirut: The Arab Council for Social Sciences, 2024); and co-editor of the Handbook to Gendering the Cultural Histories of the Modern Arab World (London: I.B.Tauris, 2026).