...Ferial J. Ghazoul Literature, Gender, and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Egypt: The Life and Works of ‘A’isha Taymur , Hatem Mervat F. . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2011 . 234 pages. ISBN 978-0-230-11350-3 . Copyright © 2013 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies...

... and Taymur Khan, whom the novel s titular character, Uncle Napoleon, UNCORRECTED PROOFS suspects of being British spies, are marked as outsiders in the novel. From the very rst instance in which he is mentioned until the very last (Pizishkzad 1976: 218, 496) and in nearly all instances in between, the novel...

.... Her areas of interest include women and politics, gender studies, women in Egypt and the Arab world, and the political economy of development. Hatem is the author of Literature, Gender and Nation-Building in Nineteenth Century Egypt, the Life and Works of ‘A’isha Taymur (1840-1902...

... by six male authors—Naguib Mahfouz, Mahmoud Taymur, Yusuf al-Sibaʾi, Ghassan Kanafani, Ziyad Qasim, and Hanna Mina—who published between 1950 and 2000. Hamdar notes that female characters of any type were rarely central in men’s writings of the period, so it is not surprising that ill and disabled women...

... and educators of future citizens, objects of reform based on metropolitan ideals of modernization, and producers of texts that en- tered into the public sphere. Among the very first women to publish on women’s issues were ‘Ai’sha Taymur (1840-1902) and Zaynab Fawwaz (c. 1850-1914), who were followed...

... by the middle and upper classes was promulgated by modernist intellectuals, including the women known as the first feminists, such as Aisha Ismat al-Taymur, Zaynab Fawwaz, and Malak Hifni Nasif. This new understanding of the family and of women’s roles led not only to support for women’s education but also...

... literary tradition by publishing three full-length literary biographies of her female contemporaries Malak Hifni Nasif (a.k.a. Bahithat al-Badiya, 1886–1918), Warda al-Yaziji (1838–1924), and ʿAʾisha al-Taymur (1840–1902). 17. Take, for example, Salma Saʾigh’s piece, “Minirfa wa-akhawatuha...

... for a collection and she decided to send them to Mahmud Taymur, the distinguished Egyptian writer pioneer of the Arabic short story. “I told him that if he thought they were no good, I would not write another thing. But Mahmud Taymur responded very favorably. He liked my style...

... and Works of ʿAʾisha Taymur . New York : Palgrave Macmillan . Joseph Suad , ed. 2000 . Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East . Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press . Khaldi Boutheina . 2012 . Egypt Awakening in the Early Twentieth Century: Mayy Ziyadah’s Intellectual...

... . 1999 . “ The Microdynamics of Patriarchal Change in Egypt and the Development of an Alternative Discourse on Mother-Daughter Relations: The Case of ʿAʾsha Taymur .” In Intimate Selving in Arab Families , edited by Joseph Suad , 191 – 208 . Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press . Ibn...

..., and its subject matter, producing an alternative discourse on the history of Arab women. Other conferences focused on the work of leading women like Malak Hifni Nassif, Nabawiya Musa and ῾A’isha Taymur. Th e publications and research on these important fi gures placed special attention...

... Taymur (1840–1902) (Palgrave-McMillan, forthcoming). She is also the editor of Arabic reader entitled Nahu Dirasat al-Nu’wa al-Ulum al-Siyassiya [Gender and Political Science] (Women and Memory Forum, 2010). Hatem has published articles in numerous journals, including Comparative Studies in Society...