Seen and heard
Subtitle: a century of Arab women in literature and culture
By: by Mona N. Mikhail.
Edition: First American ed.
Publisher: Olive Branch Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Northampton, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
Subjects: Arabic literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Women in literature; Women, Arab
Description: "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. Whether she examines Egyptian wedding customs, contemporary rewritings of the Shahrazad story, or women in North African novels, Mikhail sheds valuable light on the role of Arab women within Islam and within the Arab world."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 1. Growing up in Egypt at the turn of the 20th century; title: 2. The mother of the bride frantically prepares: Egyptian wedding customs; title: 3. I want a solution: films and social change; title: 4. I light ten candles: women and vow-making; title: 5. "A new vision of the veil," by Iqbal Baraka; title: 6. "Women in the discourse of crisis," by Nasr Hamid Abu-Zeid; title: 7. Nabawiyya Musa and al-Tahir al-Haddad in a virtual debate with Anwar al-Guindi; title: 8. Al-Sitt Hoda: a comedy in defense of women; title: 9. Modern-day Shahrazads; title: 10. Ambiguity and relevance in the works of Khannatha Bannuna; title: 11. Images of women in North African literature: myth or reality?; title: 12. Masculine ideology or feminine mystique: a study of writings on Arab women; title: 13. Women, love, and sex in Yusuf Idris's city: an existential dilemma; title: 14. A compromise of the road to happiness: love in Naguib Mahfouz's repetoire.