MAAÏ YOUS SEF
Maaï Youssef is a French-Egyptian author, doctor of political science.
Since 2013, she has been conducting research on the Syrian and Egyptian revolutionary movements initiated in 2011. Also passionate about visual and sound writing, she has collaborated with the Webistan agency, was a member of the Strates collective in Lausanne and produced the podcast Mise à n ues , which deals with issues related to gender and the reappropriation of gynecological knowledge. In 2023, she published her first essay with Belfond editions, “Winter Letters, Summer Letters. Writing Motherhood” , co-written with Lucille Dupré and finalist for the Grand Prix des Lectrices du magazine Elle, non-fiction category.
Maaï Youssef is currently working on a new book, "Journal de la nuit". A sensitive investigative story, this text, written from personal archives, looks back on ten years of research in Egypt, on the way in which the intimate and the scientific were mixed. It is part of a larger research-creation project focusing on scientific investigative stories and the use of alternative narrative forms to restore, and re-appropriate, the personal and human part of academic work. From a feminist and decolonial perspective, this research aims to provide a critical reflection on the use of the notions of "reflexivity" and "neutrality" in the human and social sciences.
Podcast : https://podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/mise-a-nu-es/id1501791644
Book: https://www.lisez.com/livre-grand-format/lettres-dhiver-lettres-dete/9782714499288#lecteurs-babelio