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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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Women in Islam, Biography, Egyptians, Muslim women, Feminism, Women, Meisjes, Geleerden, Vrouwen, Ägypterin, Geschichte 1952-1998, Erlebnisbericht, Ausland, Feminisme, Culturele verschillen, Islam, Women, egypt, Women, biography, Muslims, united statesPeople
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A border passage: from Cairo to America--a woman's journey
2012, Penguin Books
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A Border Passage: From Cairo to America--A Woman's Journey
June 5, 2000, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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0140291830 9780140291834
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A border passage: from Cairo to America--a woman's journey
1999, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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0374115184 9780374115180
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"IT WAS AS IF there were to life itself a quality of music in that time, the era of my childhood, and in that place, the remote edge of Cairo."
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"IT WAS AS IF there were to life itself a quality of music in that time, the era of my childhood, and in that place, the remote edge of Cairo."
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