Title: Egypt awakening in the early twentieth century
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"--
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, Authors, arab, Women, egypt, Egypt, social conditions, Criticism and interpretation, LITERARY CRITICISM, African
Places: Egypt, Cairo
People: Mayy Ziyādah
Time periods: 20th century