Egypt awakening in the early twentieth century
Subtitle: Mayy Ziyadah's intellectual circles
By: Boutheina Khaldi
Series: Middle East today
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780230340862
Subjects: Salons; Arab Authors; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / General; Intellectual life; HISTORY / Middle East / Egypt (see also Ancient / Egypt); Women; History
Description: "Through her 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 modernity project"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.