... Abouzeid’s engagement with tensions triggered by colonial encounters and postcolonial nation building. Copyright © 2015 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2015 postcolonial female agency Leila Abouzeid Arabic autobiography Moroccan autobiography Arab women’s writing...

... of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press . Golley Nawar Al-Hassan . 2003 . Reading Arab Women’s Autobiographies: Shahrazad Tells Her Story . Austin : University of Texas Press . González Jennifer A. 1995 . “ Autotopographies .” In Prosthetic...

... the experience of writing about their lives, and how their audiences receive such efforts. The Moroccan author Leila Abouzeid ( 2003 : 158), for example, has argued that it was harder for her to write autobiography as an Arab woman, because “uncovering one’s private life is considered bold and indecent in Arab...

... . Derrida and Lacan: Another Writing . Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press . Nash Geoffrey . 2007 . The Anglo-Arab Encounter: Fiction and Autobiography by Arab Writers in English . Bern : Lang . Parker Robert Dale . 2008 . How to Interpret Literature: Critical Theory...

... of literacy, both in the narrower sense of reading and writing and in the broader senses of interpretative skill and inclusion within the realm of Arabic letters, in Musa’s Ta’rikhi bi-qalami. Margot Badran (1992, 271) describes Musa’s autobiography as “a major document in the history of Egyptian...

... to do this in a society that is religiously, politically, civilizationally, and socially backward?” Ayyub anticipated that his autobiography would cause outrage. In a polemical attack likely directed at Ayyub, Diyaʾ al-Din Ahmad ( 1985 ) describes a regrettable tendency among Arab writers to use...

... Eggplant: A Novel). Cairo : Dar Sharqiyat . Al-Tahawy Miral . 2002 . Blue Aubergine , translated by Calderbank Anthony . Cairo : American University in Cairo Press . Al-Tahawy Miral . 2003a . “ Writing as an Autobiography of the Soul .” DisORIENTation: Contemporary Arab...

... in Beirut in 1977. I was mesmerized by how she combined personal experience—breaking the silence around sexuality and the female body—with historical accounts of outspoken, independent-minded Arab and Muslim women from the early days of Islam to first-wave feminism of the twentieth century. Nawal...

...miriam cooke Copyright © 2017 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2017 Less than forty years ago Arab women creative writers were virtually unknown at home and abroad. The two celebrated exceptions, the Syrian Colette Khoury and the Lebanese Layla Baalbaki, who had published...

...miriam cooke Miriam cooke is Braxton Craven Distinguished Professor of Arab Cultures and Director of the Middle East Studies Center at Duke University. Her early writings focused on the intersection of gender and war in modern Arabic literature and on Arab women writers’ constructions...

... . San Francisco : City Lights . Gilmore Leigh . 2001 . The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press . Haddad Joumana . 2010 . I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman . London : Saqi . Khouri Norma . 2003...

..., often struggles to maintain a consistent engagement with its two central tropes. For example, in chapter 3, “Mosaic Autobiography,” Al-Samman writes on Hanan al-Shayk’s Locust and the Bird and mentions Shahrazad in a singular sentence. If Al-Samman is committed to “locating the dilemma of Arab female...

... Press . Copyright © 2017 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2017 Miral al-Tahawy al-Khibaʾ ( The Tent ) Arab women writers autobiography authorial double The creative artist is always in a state of agitation and rebellion and cannot accept the place without...

.... French, her “stepmother’s tongue,” allows her to travel between texts, between French and Arabic, between written and oral (Djebar 1993 , 214). “Autobiography practiced in the enemy’s language has the texture of fiction. . . . While I thought I was undertaking a journey through myself, I find I am...

...” intertwined with the image of “God” in Abrahamic religions. Constantly accused of being “Westernized,” Nawal was, on the contrary, rooted in her Egyptian experience. She was, as she concluded in her autobiography, a daughter of Isis. Refuting any theory that sees in Woman a lesser form of Man, she tried...

... in solidarity. Harlow discussed the narratives produced by revolutionary struggles, political prisoners, and figures of critical dissent. Her first book, Resistance Literature (1987), brought together writings of national liberation struggles from Africa, Latin America, and the Arab world. She challenged...

...Deema Kaedbey Bad Girls of the Arab World . Nadia Yaqub and Rula Quawas , eds. Austin : University of Texas Press , 2017 . 239 pages. isbn 9781477313350 . Freedom without Permission: Bodies and Space in the Arab Revolutions , Frances S. Hasso and Zakia...

...miriam cooke miriam.cooke@gmail.com Copyright © 2022 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2022 The Arab world’s leading feminist activist and writer, Nawal El Saadawi, died on Sunday, March 21, 2021. She was eighty-nine. Many events happened around the world...

..., and stories of the young girls and their families, the reader is pushed to challenge existing conceptualizations of women as a homogenous category and to move away from the view of Arab women as passive victims of their society. As the author may strengthen her argument by stressing the risk...

... or the family home. I hope that as further research and translation integrates Arabic-language Moroccan novels into scholarly discourse to a level comparable to their Francophone counterparts, scholars and students of literature and feminism will benefit from the possibilities of comparison. The lack...