num_pages: 246
description: Through a detailed study of Mayy Ziy?dah'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.
language: English
title: Egypt Awakening in the Early Twentieth Century: Mayy Ziyadah’s Intellectual Circles
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan