Egypt awakening in the early twentieth century

By Buthaynah Khālidī

Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / General, Arab Authors, Women, Women, egypt, Intellectual life, HISTORY / Middle East / Egypt (see also Ancient / Egypt), POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Salons, Criticism and interpretation, Authors, arab, Egypt, social conditions, 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"--