Jacinthe A. Assaad(Is this your profile?)

Jacinthe A. Assaad is an Egyptian feminist, poet, and academic. She is currently finishing her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of Washington. Her dissertation, entitled Plagued Narratives and The Unseen: Imaging the Revolution, Imagining the Nation, explores contemporary Egyptian cinema and representations of identity and citizenship. She is also interested in how women are imagined, represented and embodied in recent Egyptian films, and how that affects the national imaginary. Personally, she doesn’t discriminate between books and shoes.