Using the Archive for a Different Public Memory – An Interview with Salma Shash:

In this episode, Salma Shash shares how her experiences in Egyptian feminist and activist/political networks have impacted her research interests, her thoughts on how to make use of governmental or state-owned archives to create a different public memory, and some of the interesting stories she encountered during her research. For example, her focus on gender, class, criminality, and carcerality provided for an interesting analysis of one of the most notorious cases of serial murder in modern Egyptian history, that of Raya and Sakina. For example, why are Raya and Sakina, two women who were accomplices in their husbands’ serial murders, so well-known in Egyptian popular culture in comparison to the their husbands who committed the murders?