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Grant Year : 2015
Profile : Researcher
Gender : F
Mobility project
Alexandria-based AMA grantee Amany ElSawy traveled to Cape Town today to participate in the Women Playwrights International Conference (June 28-July 3).
Amany ElSawy is a lecturer in the English department at the Faculty of Education of Alexandria University. Her field of specialization is contemporary British theatre. While her career has to date been focused on academic pursuits within the field of literary and theatre studies, she has recently turned to playwriting. Her first play, titled The Sun, deals with notions of displacement and the sense of being “out of place.”
Ms. ElSawy presented The Sun at the Women Playwrights International (WPI) conference, an event that will bring together women playwrights and allied theatre artists, cultural workers and scholars for four days of performances, readings, workshops and discussions. The conference has been hosted every three years at different locations in the world since WPI’s founding in 1988. The four themes for the 2015 conference were as follows: “Beyond Words”; “In Other Words”; “Choice of Words”; and “Our Own Words.”
Session
May
Type of Project
Festival/biennale/fair
Departure : Alexandria, Egypt
Destination : Cape Town, South Africa