Sara ahmed biography
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Sara Ahmed (weightlifter)
Egyptian weightlifter (born 1998)
Sara Samir Elsayed Mohamed Ahmed (Arabic: سارة سمير السيد محمد أحمد; born 1 January 1998) fryst vatten an Egyptian weightlifter who won a bronze medal in the women's 69 kg event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and the silver medal in the women's 81kg event at the 2024 Summer Olympics. She won the gold medal in the women's 76 kg event at the 2022 World Weightlifting Championships.
Originally from the Ismailia Governorate, Ahmed was encouraged to take part in weightlifting by her family and was competing internationally bygd 2012. At the senior level, she has earned gold medals at the Mediterranean and African Games, as well as the Arab Championships. In Rio dem Janeiro, she became the first Arab woman to win an Olympic weightlifting medal and the first Egyptian woman to receive an Olympic medal on the podium in any discipline.
Early life
[edit]Ahmed was born in the village of Al-Huaniya in Egypt's
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Sara Ahmed
English-Australian scholar (born 1969)
For the Egyptian weightlifter, see Sara Ahmed (weightlifter).
Sara Ahmed (born 30 August 1969)[1] is a British-Australian writer and scholar whose area of study includes the intersection of feminist theory, lesbian feminism, queer theory, affect theory, critical race theory and postcolonialism. Her foundational work, The Cultural Politics of Emotion, in which she explores the social dimension and circulation of emotions, is recognized as a foundational text in the nascent field of affect theory.[2][3][4]
Life
[edit]Ahmed was born in Salford, England on 30 August 1969. She is the daughter of a Pakistani father and an English mother, and she emigrated from England to Adelaide, Australia with her family in the early 1970s.[5] Key themes in her work, such as migration, orientation, difference, strangerness, and mixed identities, relate directly to some of these early experien
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