Interview with Kohl journal


We kick off our series of discussions on gender with an interview with the journal Kohl.

Sahar Ahmed, Paola Rivetti, Natasha Remoundou, and Nada Ahmed Mostafa Kamal Ahmed of Inmenas spoke to Ghiwa Sayegh and Sophie Chamas from the Body and Gender Research Journal, Kohl, about their interests, work, political and ethical preoccupations, and about running a journal during precarious times. 

Kohl is a progressive, feminist journal on gender and sexuality in the Middle East, South West Asia, and the North Africa regions. It is a biannual, multilingual, open access, and peer-reviewed academic journal, targeting graduate-level academics, fresh graduates, independent writers, activists and researchers who are not affiliated with an academic institution.

Ghiwa Sayegh is a queer feminist writer, publisher and archivist. She is the editor in chief of Kohl, a journal she has conceived, and the co-founder of Intersectional Knowledge Publishers. Ghiwa is a member of the collective RESURJ - Realizing Sexual and Reproductive Justice. She is passionate about the intersections of sex and sexuality, migration, global economies, and feminist histories. Her influences are Audre Lorde and Sara Ahmed.

Sophie Chamas is Senior Teaching Fellow in Gender Studies at SOAS, University of London. She received her PhD in Modern Middle East Studies from the University of Oxford, where she was also an Ertegun Scholar. Grounded in disciplinary anthropology, her work focuses on the study of social movements, counter-culture, and political theory and discourse rooted in, focused on or related to the Middle East. Broadly speaking, she is interested in thinking through the life, death and afterlife of the radical political imaginary in the Middle East and beyond by drawing on queer and feminist theory. Sophie is also an essayist and writer of creative non-fiction. She is a contributor of Kohl.
You can read Kohl at https://kohljournal.press

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