Colloquium in Honour of Mustafa Badawi. (All sessions, including dinner, will be in the Fellows’ Dining Room in the Hilda Besse Building)

MONDAY 25TH MARCH

Chair: Derek Hopwood

10-00 Michael Willis

Welcome and Introduction

10-10 Marilyn Booth

Speaking Back to the Orientalists: 1890s Egyptians Writing Gender History.

10-40 Paul Starkey

Strange Incidents from History: Youssef Rakha and his Sultan’s Seal

COFFEE

11-40 Julia Bray

Mustafa’s Influences as Teacher and Critic

12-10 Mohamed Mahmoud

In the Presence of Texts

LUNCH

Chair: Marilyn Booth

14-15 Roger Allen

The Second Journey (al-rihla al-thaniyya) of Muhammad al-Muwaylihi. Hadith ‘Isa ibn Hisham Re-visited.

14-45 Sabry Hafez

Mustafa Badawi: A personal testimony

TEA

16-00 Introduced by Derek Hopwood

Absent friends and personal testimonies.

DINNER

TUESDAY 26TH MARCH

Chair: Roger Allen

10-00 Derek Hopwood

From Ibn Danyal to Philip Larkin

10-30 Robin Ostle

The Cosmopolitan Alexandrian

COFFEE

11-30 Conclusions and Afterwords.

LUNCH