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Yasmine Motawy<\/strong><\/p>\n Yasmine Motawy is a Senior Instructor of Rhetoric and Composition at the American University in Cairo. She is an educator, translator, reviewer, scholar, mentor, and editor for children\u2019s literature. She has a BA and MA in comparative literature from The American University in Cairo and a PhD (2012) in comparative literature\u00a0with a dissertation on ideology in contemporary Egyptian and British children\u2019s literature.\u00a0She has since written on children\u2019s New Media, Utopian imaginings, representation of Muslim children, prizing, civic engagement in children’s books, and crossover fiction in various edited collections and peer reviewed journals.\u00a0She prioritizes making information about children\u2019s literature accessible, and has contributed book reviews and journalistic articles towards this goal. Motawy has been involved in the promotion of reading in the Arab world and the revival of the\u00a0Egyptian section of International Board on Books for Young People\u00a0 from 2012 to 2018, and was associate editor\u00a0of the\u00a0Routledge Companion to International Children\u2019s Literature<\/em>, and has also served on the 2016 and 2018\u00a0Hans Christian Andersen Award Jury and the 2017 Etisalat Award for Arabic Children\u2019s Literature jury. In 2018, she was the recipient of the Mellon Foundation postdoctoral grant where she supported interdisciplinary Arabic language knowledge production around Egyptian children\u2019s literature. From 2019 to 2020, she was on the Arabic books selection committee of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals Book Club<\/a>.<\/p>\n As part of her endeavors to take more Arabic children\u2019s literature abroad, she organized the first outreach\u00a0Children\u2019s Literature Symposium\u00a0at the American University in Cairo,\u00a0where\u00a0authors, publishers, illustrators, educators, critics, translators, academics and interested members of the general public gathered to\u00a0network, collaborate, and discuss\u00a0Arabic children\u2019s literature.\u00a0Yasmine is currently working on a manuscript on ideology in contemporary Egyptian children\u2019s books.<\/p>\n Motawy is interested in picturebooks, the metropolis in cinema and fiction, writing for social justice, humor in media, migrant narratives, Arab YA fiction, service learning, informal education, teaching children\u2019s writing, life narratives, and the creative writing process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yasmine Motawy Yasmine Motawy is a Senior Instructor of Rhetoric and Composition at the American University in Cairo. She is an educator, translator, reviewer, scholar, mentor, and editor for children\u2019s literature. She has a BA and MA in comparative literature from The American University in Cairo and a PhD (2012) in comparative literature\u00a0with a dissertation … <\/p>\n