Aisha Taymur: Challenges of Change and Continuity
Articles in this book were read at the conference organized by WMF to remember Aisha Taymur (1840-1902), poet, writer and social commentator.
The book includes the following chapters:
- Hoda Elsadda: Introduction: Aisha Taymur and the Challenges of Change and Continuity in the Nineteenth Century/
- Latifa Salem: The Social and Cultural History of the 1890s.
- Kamal Mughith: Aisha Taymur and the Questions of Enlightenment.
- Iman Amer: Society and Discourses on Women: The Case of Aisha Taymur.
- Nabila Ibrahim: The Poetics of Feminist Writing: Aisha Taymur.
- Lamia Tewfik: The Prison of Blindness and the Horizons of Identity in the Poetry of Aisha Taymur.
- Mervat Hatem: Modernist Discourse and Aisha Taymur’s Vision of Social and Political Change in Egypt Between 1872-1890.
- Omaima Abou-Bakr: The Image of ‘Man’ in Islamic Writings: Between Medieval and Modern Quranic Commentaries.
- Hoda Elsadda: The Woman Question in National Discourse: A Reading of Abdallah Al-Nadim’s Magazine “Al-Ustaah” .
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Women and Memory ForumYear:
2004»