Hala Kamal

Hala Kamal is a professor of gender studies in the Department of English Language and Literature, Cairo University, Egypt. Her research interests and publications in both Arabic and English are in the areas of women and gender studies, translation studies, autobiography studies, and the history of the Egyptian feminist movement. She has translated several books on gender and feminism into Arabic. Her latest publications related to translation studies include “Virginia Woolf in Arabic: A Feminist Paratextual Reading of Translation Strategies” (2021); “‘Scholactivism’: Feminist Translation as Knowledge Production for Social Change” (2021); and coediting with Luise von Flotow The Routledge Handbook of Translation, Feminism and Gender (2020).