Nehal Elmeligy

Nehal Elmeligy is a PhD student at the Department of Sociology minoring in Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. She earned her MA in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Her publication, based on her MA research, entitled Making a Scene: Young Women’s Feminist Social Nonmovement in Cairo is published in the Journal of Resistance Studies. You will also find a future publication of hers in Gender and Society in February 2022 entitled Airing Egypt’s Dirty Laundry: BuSSy’s Storytelling as Feminist Social Change. In her dissertation fieldwork in Egypt in 2022, she plans conduct qualitative research to investigate the developing feminist counterpublic on social media, and its connections to material, everyday life.

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