FWD: “Between Art and Activism: Inji Efflatoun’s Life Revisited” - Ahram Online

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In this afikra FWD, Batoul Khalifeh talks about the article “Between Art and Activism: Inji Efflatoun’s Life Revisited” from Ahram Online. Batoul talks about how Efflatoun's art changed along the years between her upbringing, activism, and imprisonment.

Sources and Further References

• Between Art and Activism: Inji Efflatoun’s Life Revisted

• Overlooked No More: Inji Efflatoun, Egyptian Artist of the People

• Hope is Contagious in Prison: Inji Efflatoun in Isolation between 1959-1963, Egypt

• Abaza, Mona (Introduction). Twentieth-Century Egyptian Art: The Private Collection of Sherwet Shafei, Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2011.

• Badran, Margot. Feminists, Islam and Nation: Gender and the Making of Modern Egypt. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1995.

• Sac īd Khayāl (ed.). Mudhakkirāt Injī Aflātūn (The Memoirs of Inji Efflatoun). Kuwait: Dar Sucād al-Sabāh, 1993.

• Inji’s World

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