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Research Focus Group Talk: Domesticating the Future: Egyptian Children’s Publishing, Generation Z, and the Neoliberal Ideology of the New Wave

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The Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group invites you to a talk by Dr. Yasmine Motawy. In this talk, Motawy will examine the Egyptian child reader as a historically produced subject shaped by two decades of neoliberal transformation. Drawing on her new book, Children’s Picture Books and Contemporary Egyptian Society, which examines a new wave of Egyptian picturebooks published in Egypt since the early 2000s, she will trace the historical development of Egyptian children’s literature ...

Taubman Symposium Talk: The Central Issues of the Priestly Struggle in the Dead Sea Scrolls

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Professor Rachel Elior’s writings have stimulated lively discussions among scholars in her areas of research. These include, among others, early Jewish mysticism, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Messianism, Hasidism, and the role of women in Jewish culture. In her talk for the Taubman Symposia, presented as an online webinar, she will speak about the significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls as a way of understanding the deep oppositional diversity of Jewish culture in Late Antiquity. Her ...