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Sherin Abu El Naga

Friday, 18 July 2008

Biography:

Sherin Abu El Naga is a distinguished Egyptian academic
and author of a book titled “From the Papers of Shahenda Mekled” published by Dar Merit. The book recounted some of the feudal practices in Kamshich village, Menoufia Governorate, in the 1950s and 1960s. She documented the murder of Shahenda Mekled’s husband and political activist Salah Hussein in 1966. The book is considered an important historical document about this era. However, the Aziz Al-Fiki family’s members regarded the book as both defamatory and insulting because it discussed some of their violations against peasants at that time. Consequently, the Al-Fiki family filed a claim and called for the imprisonment of the two writers and the publisher in addition to confiscation of the book.

El Naga is also the author of Zahia of the South, based on months of field research into the situation of women in Upper Egypt.