Arab Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide, 1873-1999Raḍwá ʻĀshūr, Ferial Jabouri Ghazoul, Hasna Reda-Mekdashi, Mandy McClure American Univ in Cairo Press, 2008 - 526 من الصفحات Arab women's writing in the modern age began with 'A'isha al-Taymuriya, Warda al-Yaziji, Zaynab Fawwaz, and other nineteenth-century pioneers in Egypt and the Levant. This unique study--first published in Arabic in 2004--looks at the work of those pioneers and then traces the development of Arab women's literature through the end of the twentieth century, and also includes a meticulously researched, comprehensive bibliography of writing by Arab women. In the first section, in nine essays that cover the Arab Middle East from Morocco to Iraq and Syria to Yemen, critics and writers from the Arab world examine the origin and evolution of women's writing in each country in the region, addressing fiction, poetry, drama, and autobiographical writing. |
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Introduction | 1 |
60 | 43 |
98 | 54 |
Iraq | 202 |
Arab North Africa | 235 |
The Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf | 254 |
Yemen | 283 |
Bibliography of Works in English | 301 |
Bibliography of Works in French | 309 |
Sources | 333 |