Arab Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide, 1873-1999 PDF
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Arab Women Writers Arab Women Writers A Critical Reference Guide 1873–1999 Edited by Radwa Ashour Ferial J. Ghazoul Hasna Reda-Mekdashi Translated by Mandy McClure The American University in Cairo Press Cairo New York Copyright © 2008 by The American University in Cairo Press 113 Sharia Kasr el Aini, Cairo, Egypt 420 Fifth Avenue, New York 10018 www.aucpress.com FirstpublishedinArabicin2004byNour:FoundationforResearchandStudies, Cairo, and the Higher Council of Culture, Cairo as Dhakira li-l-mustaqbal: mawsu‘at al-katiba al-‘arabiya. Copyright © 2004 by Nour: Foundation for Research andStudies,Cairo. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Dar el Kutub No. 20264/07 ISBN 978 977 416 146 9 Dar el Kutub Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ashour, Radwa ArabWomenWriters:ACriticalReferenceGuide,1873–1999/edited by Radwa Ashour, Ferial J. Ghazoul, Hasna Reda-Mekdashi; translated by Mandy McClure—Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2007 p. cm. ISBN 977 416 146 7 1. Arabic literature—women authors I. Ashour, Radwa (ed.) II. Ghazoul, Ferial J. (jt. ed.)III. Reda-Mekdashi, Hasna (jt. ed.) IV. Title 928.1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 Printed in Egypt In memory of Latifa al-Zayyat (1923–1996) Contents List of Contributors ix Introduction 1 Radwa Ashour, Mohammed Berrada, Ferial J. Ghazoul, and Amina Rachid 1. Lebanon 13 Yumna al-‘Id 2. Syria 60 Iman al-Qadi and Subhi Hadidi 3. Egypt 98 Hoda Elsadda 4. Sudan 162 Haidar Ibrahim 5. Iraq 178 Ferial J. Ghazoul 6. Palestine and Jordan 204 Radwa Ashour 7. Arab North Africa 235 Mohammed Berrada 8. The Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf 254 Su‘ad al-Mana 9. Yemen 283 Hatem M. al-Sager Bibliography of Works in English 301 Introduced by Ferial J. Ghazoul Bibliography of Works in French 309 Introduced by Amina Rachid Bibliography of Works in Arabic 333 Sources 521 vii Contributors Editorial Board Radwa Ashour Ferial J. Ghazoul Amina Rachid Mohammed Berrada Hasna Reda-Mekdashi Emad Abu Ghazi Contributors Emad Abu Ghazi Egyptian university professor. He received his B.A. in history from Cairo Universityin1976andaPh.D.inhistoricaldocumentsfromCairoUniversity in 1995. He teaches in the libraries, documents, and information department at Cairo University. His works include Tuman Bay al-sultan al-shahid, Tatawwur al-hiyaza al-zira‘iya fi ‘asr al-mamalik al-Jarakisa, al-Judhur al-tarikhiya li-azmat al-nahda fi Misr, and Masirat al-mar’a al-Misriya (with Hoda Elsadda). Radwa Ashour Egyptian novelist and critic. She received a Ph.D. in African-American literature from the University of Massachusetts in 1975. She is a professor of English literature at Ain Shams University, Cairo. She has publishedsixnovels,twoshort-storycollections,andfourbooksofcriticism. HernovelsincludeThulathiyatGharnata.Hermostrecentworksareabook of criticism (Sayyadu al-dhakira), a collection of stories (Taqarir al-sayyida ix
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