Egypt Awakening in the Early Twentieth

Through a detailed study of Mayy Ziyadah'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.

Boutheina Khaldi is an assistant professor of Arabic and Translation Studies at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. Her research focuses on women's literary salons in Arabic, English, French, and Persian; classical and modern Arabic literature in translation; postcolonial literature; women's literary production in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France and England; and women's biographies. She has published a number of articles and co-edited three books, Al-Adab al-'Arabi al-?adith: Mukhtarat, Al-Wafi fi Turath al-'Arab al-Thaqafi, and Turath al-'Arab al-Ma'rifi.

"In writing this book about Mayy Ziyadah 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

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

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