Yasmine Motawy
- Position: Senior Instructor II
- Department: Department of Rhetoric and Composition
- Email: ymotawy@aucegypt.edu
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 also prioritizes making information about children’s literature accessible, and has produced journalism, organized events, and worked with the Egyptian Board on Books for Young People (2012-2018) and other Non-Governmental Organisations towards this goal. She has served on the 2021 Bologna Ragazzi Award Jury, the 2016 and 2018 Hans Christian Andersen Award Jury, the 2017 Etisalat Award for Arabic Children’s Literature jury, and on the Arabic books selection committee of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Book Club (2019-2020). In 2018, she was the recipient of the Mellon Foundation postdoctoral grant where she supported interdisciplinary Arabic language knowledge production. In 2021, her book on ideology in picturebooks written in Egypt in the last twenty years Silence Between the Waves: Children’s Picturebooks and Contemporary Egyptian Society was published in Arabic.
- Children’s literature
- Children in the media
- Arab YA and picture books
- Education
- Writing for social justice
- Life narratives
- The creative writing process
- Migrant narratives and literature
- Service-learning, publishing
- Critical discourse analysis
- Teaching writing for children