TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mikhail,Mona
TI  - Seen and heard: a century of Arab women in literature and culture 
SN  - 1566564638 (pbk.) :
AV  - PJ7538 .M554 2004
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Northampton, Mass.
PB  - Olive Branch Press
KW  - Arabic literature
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Women in literature
KW  - Women, Arab
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Growing up in Egypt at the Turn of the 20th Century -- The Mother of the Bride Frantically Prepares: Egyptian Wedding Customs -- I Want a Solution: Films and Social Change -- I Light Ten Candles: Women and Vow-Making -- "A New Vision of the Veil," / Iqbal Barraka -- "Women in the Discourse of Crisis," / Nasr Hamid Abu-Zeid -- Nabawiyya Musa and al-Tahir al-Haddad in a Virtual Debate / Anwar al-Guindi -- Al-Sitt Hoda: A Comedy in Defense of Women -- Modern-Day Shahrazads -- Ambiguity and Relevance in the Works of Khannatha Bannuna -- Images of Women in North African Literature: Myth or Reality? -- Masculine Ideology or Feminine Mystique: A Study of Writings on Arab Women -- Women, Love, and Sex in Yusuf Idris's City: An Existential Dilemma -- A Compromise on the Road to Happiness: Love in Naguib Mahfouz's Repetoire
N2  - How are Arab women seen by others? How do Arab women see themselves? New York University professor Mona Mikhail's new collection of essays casts a wide net over literature, film, popular culture, and the law in order to investigate the living, often rapidly changing, reality of Arab women and their societies
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