Egypt Awakening in the Early Twentieth Century

Download or read book Egypt Awakening in the Early Twentieth Century written by B. Khaldi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-23 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a detailed study of Mayy Ziy?dah'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 project of modernity.