Middle East Today: Mayy Ziyadah’s Intellectual Circles

Khaldi, B.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2012-12-05

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230340862

DOI: 10.1057/9781137106667

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 237