Egypt Awakening in the Early Twentieth Century: Mayy Ziyadah's Intellectual Circles

by B. Khaldi

Overview

Through a detailed study of Mayy Ziyādah's literary salon, Boutheina Khaldi sheds light on salon and epistolary culture in early twentieth-century Egypt and its role in Egypt's Nahdah (Awakening). Bringing together history, women's studies, Arabic literature, post-colonial literature, and media studies, she highlights the important and previously little-discussed contribution of Arabic women to the project of modernity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349343607
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	12/05/2012
Series:	Middle East Today
Edition description:	1st ed. 2012
Pages:	237
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Boutheina Khaldi is Assistant Professor of Arabic and Translation Studies at the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.

Table of Contents

The Ambivalent Modernity Project: From Napoleon's Expedition to Mayy Ziyadah's Salon The Salon as a Public Sphere They Discuss The Letter as Annex Style as Persuasion: Pleading the Case for the New

Editorial Reviews

"In writing this book about Mayy Ziyādah and her early twentieth-century Cairo salon, which for the first time brought together the male and female literati of the Arab world, Boutheina Khaldi has contributed a crucial missing element in the construction of the modern Arabic literary canon." - Miriam Cooke, professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University

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