Seen and Heard: A Century of Arab Women in Literature and Culture

by Mona N Mikhail

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781566564632
Publisher:	Interlink Publishing Group Inc
Publication date:	12/01/2003
Series:	Bestselling History and Politics Series
Edition description:	FIRST AMER
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.36(w) x 8.92(h) x 0.60(d)

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgements	vii
	Introduction	ix
1	Growing up in Egypt at the Turn of the 20th Century	1
2	The Mother of the Bride Frantically Prepares: Egyptian Wedding Customs	11
3	I Want a Solution: Films and Social Change	30
4	I Light Ten Candles: Women and Vow-Making	39
5	"A New Vision of the Veil,"	49
6	"Women in the Discourse of Crisis,"	58
7	Nabawiyya Musa and al-Tahir al-Haddad in a Virtual Debate	81
8	Al-Sitt Hoda: A Comedy in Defense of Women	89
9	Modern-Day Shahrazads	94
10	Ambiguity and Relevance in the Works of Khannatha Bannuna	100
11	Images of Women in North African Literature: Myth or Reality?	112
12	Masculine Ideology or Feminine Mystique: A Study of Writings on Arab Women	124
13	Women, Love, and Sex in Yusuf Idris's City: An Existential Dilemma	141
14	A Compromise on the Road to Happiness: Love in Naguib Mahfouz's Repetoire	159
	Endnotes	166