"The massive uprising that has shaken Egypt’s ruling party and riveted the world carries particular resonance for Samah Selim, a professor in the university’s Department of African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures. Selim is a native Egyptian whose research focuses on modern Arabic Literature in Egypt and the Levant. She says that those watching the protests from afar should think in terms of simple human dignity – the dignity of the Egyptian people, which she says has been violated over and over again by the Mubarak regime. The author of “ The Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt,” Selim recently spoke to Rutgers Today about Egypt."

http://news.rutgers.edu/medrel/special-content/2011/hot-topic-the-uprisi-20110201