The Career and Communities of Zaynab Fawwaz
Feminist Thinking in Fin-de-siècle Egypt
$571.21
- Hardcover
614 pages
- Release Date
2 February 2022
Summary
Zaynab Fawwaz (d. 1914) emerged from an obscure childhood in the Shi’I community of Jabal ‘Amil (now Lebanon) to become a recognized writer on women’s and girls’ aspirations and rights in 1890s Egypt. This book insists on the centrality of gender as a marker of social difference to the Arabic knowledge movement then, or Nahda.
Fawwaz published essays and engaged in debates in the Egyptian and Ottoman-Arabic press, published two novels, and the first play known to have been composed in…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780192846198 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0192846191 |
| Author: | Marilyn Booth |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 614 |
| Release Date: | 2 February 2022 |
| Weight: | 1.08kg |
| Dimensions: | 240mm x 162mm x 38mm |
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About The Author
Marilyn Booth
Marilyn Booth earned her doctorate in Middle East History and Modern Arabic Literature from St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. She has taught at American University in Cairo, the University of Illinois, Brown University, University of Edinburgh as Iraq Chair in Arabic and Islamic Studies, and currently, Magdalen College and the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford as Khalid bin Abdullah Al Saud Chair. She has published books and essays on intersections of gender history, Arabic literature, and women’s writing in nineteenth- and early-twentieth century Egypt, and is a prize-winning literary translator and co-winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize.
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