Sara Fakhry Ismail
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Urbanism

My interest in the right to city began to grow in 2008 when I was arrested, attempting to go to a demonstration in Tahrir square. Goin back to Cairo in 2011 and sleeping in the same square I was once denied simply standing in felt like a revolution in and of itself.
Since 2011led by the changes I witnessed in the use and occupation of public space in Cairo and Damscus, I have been concerned with how bodies move in public spaces, walking, quotidian and non-quotidian urban practices and forms of embodiment involved in being in cities. I have continued to engage in research and practices in relation to movement in space and embodiments of it. 
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Walking While Woman: Lecture to MA Urban Sociology, Navigating Urban Life course with Emma Jackson at Goldsmiths College, University of London 2017
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Article on walking as an act of resistance and reclaiming the city @ Mada Masr, also cited here
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Women Walking Cairo: Lecture presentation of research RC21 Conference "Rethinking Global Urban Justice" 2017, also mentioned here
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Nightwalks in my Pyjamas: Solo nocturnal ritual walking practice 2011. Photo by Maged Nader
  • Recent Works
  • Theatre & Performance
  • Forum Theatre
  • On Being in Cities
  • Bio