Arab Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide, 1873-1999

542 Pages·2008·5.02 MB·English

by  Radwa Ashour

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
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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
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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
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