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THEATER PERFORMANCE
Have you ever had a part in a school play? If you did, you know how much fun it is! We are looking for talents for a theater performance. We will need volunteers to act, to direct, to work backstage, to help with logistics. Please e-mail us at:
faiwahshe@yahoo.com or indicate your interest on the E.A.O. FACEBOOK
EXPRESS YOURSELF
As we expand the Egyptian American Report (EAR), we welcome input from the membership. Please send any article, news, or topics of interest to
faiwahshe@yahoo.com or express yourself on the E.A.O. FACEBOOK!
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The E.A.O. 2009 OUTSTANDING Achievement Award
Recipient: Faiza W. Shereen
Introduction of Dr. Faiza Shereen by Dr. Abdelmonem Afifi
Asked what she thought the most wonderful thing in life was, she replied: “children--more particularly infants—they come into the world as a bundle of energy and pure potential!”
Asked what her greatest professional achievement was, she replied: “Balance among my various roles as scholar, teacher, administrator.”
Her children say of her:
“My mother? A woman who can accomplish anything she sets her mind to!”
“She’s vivacious, caring, a workaholic!”
“She has the energy of a humming bird and the passion of a dolphin.”
Faiza Shereen was born Faiza Wahby in Alexandria, Egypt. She immigrated to the United States with her husband, Ahmed Shereen, as a student in 1973. She received a B.A. in English Language and Literature from Alexandria University; an M.A. in Literature from the University of Dayton (Ohio); and a Ph.D. in Literary Theory from the University of Cincinnati (Ohio).
She taught briefly at Alexandria University. In the U.S., she taught at the University of Cincinnati, the Claremont Colleges, and the University of La Verne in California. The bulk of her professional career, from Assistant to full Professor, was at the English Department, University of Dayton, from 1988 to 2005. Currently, Shereen is Chief International Officer at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Her responsibilities span all aspects of international education.
Shereen’s teaching and scholarship cover a broad range of subjects: European and British literature of the early twentieth century, literary theory, women in literature, colonial and postcolonial literature, and drama. Throughout her career, she has participated in developing curricula and programs in Women’s Studies and International Studies. Her publications cover all these areas.
Shereen’s most recently published creative piece is a novella Entitled Gifts of Time, published by The Feminist Press at The City University of New York. It received a “Literary Prize for Creative Writing” in 2004 from Radius of Arab American Writers, Inc. She has also written poetry and a play, The Country Within, about Egyptian immigrants in the U.S. The play has been performed and reviewed a number of times and was included in university courses on Postcolonial and Diaspora literature.
Shereen received a number of fellowships and scholarships as well as honors and grants, including: 2 Senior Scholar Fulbright awards, an American Institute for Maghreb Studies grant, the Gifford Doxsee Outstanding Scholar Award and an Arab-American Association Award.
An important moment of Shereen’s career was her encounter with Jacques Derrida, the contemporary French philosopher responsible for much of the postmodern theory that revolutionized Western thought. He subsequently invited her to participate in a closed seminar in Paris with other leading thinkers stating: “It is rare to come across a mind like hers that is perceptive, analytical, and creative, all at once.”
Similarly, the chair of the Dayton English Department, where she taught for many years, says: “the good news was that every class Faiza taught filled quickly. The bad news is that when the good students took her class, they tended to take every other course she taught, and didn’t get exposure to other teachers! Unintentionally, Faiza monopolized the best students!”
Throughout her years as a student and scholar, Shereen was raising a family of five children, and traveling extensively with her husband. She has lived and worked in Africa and in Europe, as well as in California and in Ohio. Despite her many interests and her dynamic career, Shereen considers her family her greatest accomplishment. Her five children are currently at various stages of post-graduate study, and her oldest daughter, who lives in Santa Cruz with her husband, has just made Shereen a proud grandmother.
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