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  Title

  A border passage : from Cairo to America--a woman's journey

  Author

  Ahmed, Leila.  

  Publisher:

  Penguin Books,

  Pub date:

  c2012.

  Pages:

  viii, 318, 10 p. ;

  ISBN:

  9780143121923

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library.
  

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    Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library	Copies	Material	Location	Map
    HQ1793 .Z75 A55 2012	1	Book	Available, On shelf

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  ISBN:

  9780143121923 (pbk.)

  ISBN:

  0143121928 (pbk.)

  Personal Author:

  Ahmed, Leila.

  Title:

  A border passage : from Cairo to America--a woman's journey / Leila Ahmed.

  Publication info:

  New York : Penguin Books, c2012.

  Physical description:

  viii, 318, 10 p. ; 20 cm.

  General Note:

  Includes a Penguin readers guide to A border passage.

  General Note:

  "First published in the United States of America by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999"--T.p. verso.

  Contents:

  Pt. 1. In the House of Memory -- Egypt: The Background -- From Colonial to Postcolonial -- In Expectation of Angels -- Transitions -- Harem -- School Days -- Suez -- The Harem Perfected? -- Pt. 2. Running from the flames that lit the sky -- Penalties of dissent -- In the groves of white academe -- From Abu Dhabi to America -- Epilogue. Cairo moments.

  Summary:

  Leila Ahmed grew up in Cairo in the 1940s and '50s in a family that was eagerly and passionately political. Although many in the Egyptian upper classes were firmly opposed to change, the Ahmeds were proud supporters of independence. But when the Revolution arrived, the family's opposition to Nasser's policies led to persecutions that would throw their lives into turmoil and set their youngest child on a journey across cultures. Through university in England and teaching jobs in Abu Dhabi and America, Leila Ahmed sought to define herself - and to understand how the world defined her - as a woman, a Muslim, an Egyptian, and an Arab. Her search touched on questions of language and nationalism, on differences between men's and women's ways of knowing, and on vastly different interpretations of Islam. She arrived in the end as an ardent but critical feminist with an insider's understanding of multiculturalism and religious pluralism. In language that vividly evokes the lush summers of her Cairo youth and the harsh barrenness of the Arabian desert, Leila Ahmed has given us a story that can help us all to understand the passages between cultures that so affect our global society.

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  Personal subject:

  Ahmed, Leila.

  Subject term:

  Women--Egypt--Biography.

  Subject term:

  Muslim women--Egypt--Biography.

  Subject term:

  Women in Islam--Biography.

  Subject term:

  Egyptians--United States--Biography.

  Subject term:

  Feminism.

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