TY  - BOOK
AU  - Khālidī,Buthaynah
TI  - Egypt awakening in the early twentieth century: Mayy Ziyadah's intellectual circles 
T2  - Middle East today
SN  - 978-0-230-34086-2
U1  - 810.9009 23A
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York, Basingstoke
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Salons--Egypt--Cairo--History--20th century
KW  - Authors, Arab--Egypt--Intellectual life--20th century
KW  - Women--Egypt--Intellectual life--20th century
KW  - Egypt--Intellectual life--20th century
N1  - Bibliogr. p. [216]-228
N2  - "Through her detailed study of Mayy Ziyādah's literary salon, Boutheina Khaldi sheds light on salon and epistolary culture in early twentieth-century Egypt and its role in Egypt's Nahdah (Awakening). Bringing together history, women's studies, Arabic literature, post-colonial literature, and media studies, she highlights the important and previously little-discussed contribution of Arabic women to the modernity project"--
ER  -