Carolina Bracco

Carolina Bracco has a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and master’s degree and PhD in Arab Culture from the University of Granada. She wrote her master’s Thesis on the life of the Egyptian Dancer Tahia Carioca and her Doctoral Thesis on the image and imaginary of dancers in Egyptian film after four years of fieldwork in Cairo (2007-2011). Adjunct Professor at the History Department Philosophy and Letters Faculty of UBA (FFYL-UBA) where she teachs the seminar “Women and Anticolonial Struggle in the MENA Region”. Professor at the Ph.D. program of FFYL-UBA with the seminar “Gender, Feminism and Modernity in the Arab World”. Professor at the Museum of the Argentinian Woman where she teaches the courses “Women’s Movements in the Arab World” and “Women and Resistance in the Middle East”. Editorial Secretary of Al Zeytun, first Latin American academic journal on Palestinian thought, analysis and culture. Co-Director of the Gender Studies Collection of Canáan Publishing House. International speaker and author of numerous papers on gender, feminisms and cinema in the Middle East.