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Seen and heard : a century of Arab women in literature and culture / by Mona N. Mikhail.

by Mikhail, Mona.

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Northampton, Mass. : Olive Branch Press, 2004.

Arabic literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.

Women in literature.

1566564638 (pbk.)

xii, 169 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

First American ed.

1. Growing up in Egypt at the turn of the 20th century -- 2. The mother of the bride frantically prepares: Egyptian wedding customs -- 3. I want a solution: films and social change -- 4. I light ten candles: women and vow-making -- 5. "A new vision of the veil," by Iqbal Baraka -- 6. "Women in the discourse of crisis," by Nasr Hamid Abu-Zeid -- 7. Nabawiyya Musa and al-Tahir al-Haddad in a virtual debate with Anwar al-Guindi -- 8. Al-Sitt Hoda: a comedy in defense of women -- 9. Modern-day Shahrazads -- 10. Ambiguity and relevance in the works of Khannatha Bannuna -- 11. Images of women in North African literature: myth or reality? -- 12 Masculine ideology or feminine mystique: a study of writings on Arab women -- 13. Women, love, and sex in Yusuf Idris's city: an existential dilemma -- 14. A compromise of the road to happiness: love in Naguib Mahfouz's repetoire.

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