Yasmine Motawy
- Position: Senior Instructor II
- Department: Department of Rhetoric and Composition
- Email: [email protected]
Yasmine Motawy teaches rhetoric and composition at The American University in Cairo (AUC) and is a scholar, critic, translator, editor, consultant, and writing mentor in the field of children’s literature. She has served on regional and international children’s literary award juries such as the 2021 Bologna Ragazzi Award, the 2016 and 2018 Hans Christian Andersen Award, the 2017 Etisalat Award for Arabic Children’s Literature, the 2019 Arabic selection committee of the UN SDGs Book Club, and chaired the 2025 Sawiris Cultural Award. She is co-editor of The Routledge Companion to International Children’s Literature (2018). She was convenor of the Children’s Literature Symposium supported by HUSSLab at AUC (2018). In 2022, she was awarded the Excellence in Research and Creative Endeavors Award from AUC. Her latest book is Children’s Picture Books and Contemporary Egyptian Society (2025). She is serving on the board of the International Research Society for Children's Literature from 2025 to 2027.
- Children’s literature and media
- Arab YA and picture books
- Civic education and engagement
- Nation-building, neoliberalism, and socialization in children’s literature and media
- Prizing and publishing practices
- Book production ecosystems
- Life narratives
- The creative writing process
- Service-learning, publishing
- Critical discourse analysis
- Teaching writing for children