Egypt Awakening in the Early Twentieth Century - Mayy Ziyadah''s Intellectual Circles

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.

List of contents

The Ambivalent Modernity Project: From Napoleon's Expedition to Mayy Ziyadah's Salon The Salon as a Public Sphere They Discuss The Letter as Annex Style as Persuasion: Pleading the Case for the New

About the author

Boutheina Khaldi is Assistant Professor of Arabic and Translation Studies at the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.

Summary

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.

Additional text

"In writing this book about Mayy Ziy?dah and her early twentieth-century Cairo salon, which for the first time brought together the male and female literati of the Arab world, Boutheina Khaldi has contributed a crucial missing element in the construction of the modern Arabic literary canon." - Miriam Cooke, professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University

Report

"In writing this book about Mayy Ziy?dah and her early twentieth-century Cairo salon, which for the first time brought together the male and female literati of the Arab world, Boutheina Khaldi has contributed a crucial missing element in the construction of the modern Arabic literary canon." - Miriam Cooke, professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University

Product details

• Authors: B Khaldi, B. Khaldi, Boutheina Khaldi
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.02.2016
• EAN: 9781349343607
• ISBN: 978-1-349-34360-7
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: Middle East Today; Middle East Today
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; B, Gender Studies, History, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Political Science, Middle East, Political science & theory, Asian History, Gender studies, gender groups, History, Modern, Modern History, Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, History of the Middle East, Middle East—History, Middle East—Politics and government, Middle Eastern Politics, Ethnology—Middle East, Middle Eastern Culture