THE DEPARTMENT OF GENDER STUDIES PRESENTSUnveiling the Veiled in Marjane Satrapi’s Two-Volume Graphic Memoir Persepolis and Rajaa Alsanea’s Girls of Riyadh: a Revolutionary Perspective  Dr. Engy Ashour TorkyAssistant Professor of English Literature, Sadat Academy of  Management Sciences, EgyptFulbright Visiting Scholar, UC BerkeleyTuesday, February 7th, 2017 3-4:30 pm2125 Rolfe Hall  This talk will unveil and highlight the different “power” structures imposed on Muslim women in two Muslim dictatorial countries (Iran and Saudi Arabia) through comparing Persepolis, by Iranian-born French graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi, and Girls of Riyadh, by Saudi writer Rajaa Alsanea. The two literary texts are re-visited, tackled and dissected in the light of Foucauldian treatments of “power” and “resistance.”