Professor Hanaa /
Bassiouney, Reem.
Helmi, Laila.
Reading : Garnet Publishing,
2011.
On the eve of her birthday Egyptian academic, Professor Hanaa, finds herself alone, unloved, and about to turn into an embittered, forty-year-old spinster. Never one to admit defeat, Hanaa determines she will lose her virginity before her birthday, and sets her sights on Khalid, her teaching assistant. What ensues is a lively, witty, often sly commentary on gender and power relationships in both academia and the Arab world--Cover p. [4].
A novel.
On the eve of her birthday Egyptian academic, Professor Hanaa, finds herself alone, unloved, and about to turn into an embittered, forty-year-old spinster. Never one to admit defeat, Hanaa determines she will lose her virginity before her birthday, and sets her sights on Khalid, her teaching assistant. What ensues is a lively, witty, often sly commentary on gender and power relationships in both academia and the Arab world--Cover p. [4].