Book Talk | Egyptian Made: Women, Work, and the Promise of Liberation with Leslie T. Chang

Mar 19, 2024 | Wilson Center
5th Floor, Woodrow Wilson Center and Online EVENT S
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The Middle East Program (MEP)’s Middle East Women's initiative is pleased to host former Wall Street Journal journalist Leslie T. Chang for a discussion about her new book, Egyptian Made: Women, Work, and the Promise of Liberation. 

Over the course of two years, Chang followed three Egyptian women who work in the textile and garment manufacturing industry. Through their lives and her own experience living in Egypt after the 2011 Arab Uprisings, Chang probes the risks and prejudices women continue to face in Egypt, the country’s reckoning with centuries of political upheaval, and the struggle with the demands of globalization as well as economic pressures at home as Egypt’s economy faces serious challenges. Interested in the ramifications of large-scale politico-economic trends on the everyday woman, she ultimately asks: “What happens to the women who choose to work in a country struggling to reconcile a traditional culture with the demands of globalization?”