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- catalog abstract ""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. Whether she examines Egyptian wedding customs, contemporary rewritings of the Shahrazad story, or women in North African novels, Mikhail sheds valuable light on the role of Arab women within Islam and within the Arab world."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13104166.
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""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. Whether she examines Egyptian wedding customs, contemporary rewritings of the Shahrazad story, or women in North African novels, Mikhail sheds valuable light on the role of Arab women within Islam and within the Arab world."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. Growing up in Egypt at the turn of the 20th century -- 2. The mother of the bride frantically prepares: Egyptian wedding customs -- 3. I want a solution: films and social change -- 4. I light ten candles: women and vow-making -- 5. "A new vision of the veil," by Iqbal Barraka -- 6. "Women in the discourse of crisis," by Nasr Hamid Abu-Zeid -- 7. Nabawiyya Musa and al-Tahir al-Haddad in a virtual debate with Anwar al-Guindi -- 8. Al-Sitt Hoda: a comedy in defense of women -- 9. Modern-day Shahrazads -- 10. Ambiguity and relevance in the works of Khannatha Bannuna -- 11. Images of women in North African literature: myth or reality? -- 12 Masculine ideology or feminine mystique: a study of writings on Arab women -- 13. Women, love, and sex in Yusuf Idris's city: an existential dilemma -- 14. A compromise on the road to happiness: love in Naguib Mahfouz's repetoire".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 166-169).".
- catalog extent "xii, 169 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Seen and heard.".
- catalog identifier "1566564638 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Seen and heard.".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Northampton, Mass. : Olive Branch Press,".
- catalog relation "Seen and heard.".
- catalog subject "892.7/09352042/0904 21".
- catalog subject "Arabic literature 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PJ7538 .M554 2004".
- catalog subject "Women in literature.".
- catalog subject "Women, Arab.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Growing up in Egypt at the turn of the 20th century -- 2. The mother of the bride frantically prepares: Egyptian wedding customs -- 3. I want a solution: films and social change -- 4. I light ten candles: women and vow-making -- 5. "A new vision of the veil," by Iqbal Barraka -- 6. "Women in the discourse of crisis," by Nasr Hamid Abu-Zeid -- 7. Nabawiyya Musa and al-Tahir al-Haddad in a virtual debate with Anwar al-Guindi -- 8. Al-Sitt Hoda: a comedy in defense of women -- 9. Modern-day Shahrazads -- 10. Ambiguity and relevance in the works of Khannatha Bannuna -- 11. Images of women in North African literature: myth or reality? -- 12 Masculine ideology or feminine mystique: a study of writings on Arab women -- 13. Women, love, and sex in Yusuf Idris's city: an existential dilemma -- 14. A compromise on the road to happiness: love in Naguib Mahfouz's repetoire".
- catalog title "Seen and heard : a century of Arab women in literature and culture / by Mona N. Mikhail.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".