Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journals
Fahmy, Sarah. 2024. “The Labor of Our Love: Creating the Middle Eastern Theatre Focus Group.” Theatre Topics. 34 (1): 51-66 doi:10.1353/tt.2024.a920474
Fahmy, Sarah. 2023. “Performing on the Nile: Young Women Embodying Ecofeminist Decolonial Care.” Environmental Communication 18 (1–2): 191–99. doi:10.1080/17524032.2023.2296853.
Fahmy, Sarah. 2023. “Using Applied Theatre for Collective Healing and Grief Processing in the Classroom.” Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed Journal: 7(11).
Fahmy, Sarah. 2022. “Eco-puppetry: playful disruptions for climate agency.” Puppetry International Journal. 52: 30-36.
Osnes, Beth, Fahmy, Sarah. 2022. “Keeping the Fun in Staying with the Trouble: Green Suits and Environmental Activist Pleasure.” Theatre Topics. 32(2): 49-60. doi:10.1353/tt.2022.0014.
Hackett, Chelsea, Boyd, Ellory, Osnes, Beth, Fahmy, Sarah, Simmons, NyaJoy. 2022. “Beyond rationality: the role of educator self-disclosure in sexual violence prevention education.” Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning. 23(2): 212-19. Doi:10.1080/14681811.2022.2094355
Fahmy, Sarah, Osnes, Beth. 2022. “little words BIG ISSUES: Co-creating an applied theatre workshop with Young Women.” RiDE: Research in Drama Education. 28(2): 210-28 doi: 10.1080/13569783.2022.2086039
Fahmy, Sarah, Kan, Pui-Fong, Lewon, Jen. 2021.“The Effect of Theatre-based Vocal Empowerment Program on Young Women’s Speech & Language Characteristics in Egypt.” PLoS One 16(12): doi 10.1371/journal.pone.0261294
Book Chapters
Fahmy, Sarah. (forthcoming 2025). “Where are the Scripts? Narrating North African 21st Century Theatre.” In Decolonizing Dramaturgy in Global Contexts Volume 1. Methuen Drama, Bloomsbury Press.
Fahmy, Sarah. (forthcoming 2025). “Catastrophic Arab Shadows: Archiving the Obscene.” In Global Medieval Drama, Cambridge Elements Series on the Global Middle Ages. University of Cambridge Press.
Fahmy, Sarah. (forthcoming 2024). “Decolonizing the conversation: Sustainable Development Performances in Egypt.” In Applied Theatre and Gender Justice. Routledge.
El-Kot, Ghada, Fahmy, Sarah, Leat, Mike. 2023. “The Impact of Social Media on Employees’ Voice in Egypt.” In Employee Voice in the Global South: Insights from Asia, Africa, and South America. Palgrave Macmillan.
Osnes, Beth, Fahmy, Sarah, Hackett, Chelsea and Nixon, Lianna. 2021. “Young Women’s Voices for Climate.” In Applied Theatre with Youth: Education, Engagement, Activism. Routledge. 223-231 ISBN 9780367483326
El-Kot, Ghada, Leat, Mike, Fahmy, Sarah. 2021. “The Nexus Between Work-Life Balance and Gender in Egypt,” In Work-Life Interface. Springer. 185-213. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-66648-4_7
Digital Humanities Publications
Fahmy, Sarah. Ackamete, Aycan, Elnaggar, Suzi. (forthcoming 2024). Handbook of Middle Eastern North African Theatre and Performance Scholarship. A creation of the Middle East focus group, Association for Theatre in Higher Education.
Fahmy, Sarah. (forthcoming 2025). HERitage emBODYment website.
Fahmy, Sarah. 2020. Middle Eastern North African Women Playwrights Database. University of Colorado Boulder Libraries.
Book Reviews
Fahmy, Sarah. 2023. “Middle Eastern American Theatre: Communities, Cultures, and Artists by Michael Malek Najjar, 2021.” Theatre Journal March, 75(1).
Fahmy, Sarah. 2019. “Applied Improvisation: Leading, Collaborating, and Creating Beyond the Theatre edited by Theresa Robbins Dudeck, & Caitlin McClure, 2018.” Theatre Topics, 29(3).
Recognition by Minister Nabila Makram, Minister of Expatriate Affairs, at the Egypt Can: Education Conference
Conference Involvement
I believe conferences are summer camps for academics…Always rejuvenated, nourished, challenged, and left yearning for more!
At the Association for Theatre in Higher Education in 2018, I helped create the Middle Eastern Theatre (MET) Focus Group. Since, as the current Chair, I have (1) led initiatives to bridge the gap between industry and academia, (2) partnered with theatre for social change, Latinx, Black theatre, LGBTQ+ groups, (3) contributed to local and national new play development initiatives. Responsive to the needs of scholars, students and practitioners I am currently evolving and decentralizing my personal research project--the first MENA women playwrights database at a university library--by leading the development of MET’s open access platform.
I have also served as the Theatre for Social Change Focus Group graduate representative, leading the debut panel, and was the 2022 pre-conference planner.
Over the years I’ve presented at ATHE, ASTR, PSi, MATC, A2RU as well as the International Symposium on Bilingualism, UN Commission on the Status of Women, and the National Association of Graduate and Professional Students.
with Dr. Jashodhara Sen and Dr. Amanda Rose Villarreal at ATHE, 2018
CU Boulder current graduate students and alumni, ATHE 2019
Presenting at A2RU
with my Visual Arts Presentation, entitled No.Stop.Help. , UCLA 2018