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Seen and heard : a century of Arab women in literature and culture / by Mona N. Mikhail.
Publication details: Northampton, Mass. : Olive Branch Press, 2004.Edition: First American edDescription: xii, 169 p. : ill. ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1566564638 (pbk.) :
- PJ7538 .M554 2004
Contents:
Summary: How are Arab women seen by others? How do Arab women see themselves? New York University professor Mona Mikhail's new collection of essays casts a wide net over literature, film, popular culture, and the law in order to investigate the living, often rapidly changing, reality of Arab women and their societies.
Growing up in Egypt at the Turn of the 20th Century -- The Mother of the Bride Frantically Prepares: Egyptian Wedding Customs -- I Want a Solution: Films and Social Change -- I Light Ten Candles: Women and Vow-Making -- "A New Vision of the Veil," / Iqbal Barraka -- "Women in the Discourse of Crisis," / Nasr Hamid Abu-Zeid -- Nabawiyya Musa and al-Tahir al-Haddad in a Virtual Debate / Anwar al-Guindi -- Al-Sitt Hoda: A Comedy in Defense of Women -- Modern-Day Shahrazads -- Ambiguity and Relevance in the Works of Khannatha Bannuna -- Images of Women in North African Literature: Myth or Reality? -- Masculine Ideology or Feminine Mystique: A Study of Writings on Arab Women -- Women, Love, and Sex in Yusuf Idris's City: An Existential Dilemma -- A Compromise on the Road to Happiness: Love in Naguib Mahfouz's Repetoire.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | PJ 7538 .M554 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Copy Type:01 - Books | Available | 651828 |
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| PJ 7525.2 .I55 2002 Intersections : gender, nation, and community in Arab women's novels / | PJ 7530 .A18 1990 °Abbasid belles-lettres / | PJ 7538 .M37 2018 ARABIC al-Andalus : al-dalālah wa-al-ramzīyah / | PJ 7538 .M554 2004 Seen and heard : a century of Arab women in literature and culture / | PJ 7538 .M58 1992 Modern Arabic literature / | PJ 7538 .T73 2000 Tradition, modernity, and postmodernity in Arabic literature : essays in honor of professor Issa J. Boullata / | PJ 7538 .V54 1994 The view from within : writers and critics on contemporary Arabic literature : a selection from Alif: journal of comparative poetics / |
Includes bibliographical references.
Growing up in Egypt at the Turn of the 20th Century -- The Mother of the Bride Frantically Prepares: Egyptian Wedding Customs -- I Want a Solution: Films and Social Change -- I Light Ten Candles: Women and Vow-Making -- "A New Vision of the Veil," / Iqbal Barraka -- "Women in the Discourse of Crisis," / Nasr Hamid Abu-Zeid -- Nabawiyya Musa and al-Tahir al-Haddad in a Virtual Debate / Anwar al-Guindi -- Al-Sitt Hoda: A Comedy in Defense of Women -- Modern-Day Shahrazads -- Ambiguity and Relevance in the Works of Khannatha Bannuna -- Images of Women in North African Literature: Myth or Reality? -- Masculine Ideology or Feminine Mystique: A Study of Writings on Arab Women -- Women, Love, and Sex in Yusuf Idris's City: An Existential Dilemma -- A Compromise on the Road to Happiness: Love in Naguib Mahfouz's Repetoire.
How are Arab women seen by others? How do Arab women see themselves? New York University professor Mona Mikhail's new collection of essays casts a wide net over literature, film, popular culture, and the law in order to investigate the living, often rapidly changing, reality of Arab women and their societies.
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