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020 $a9780143121923 (pbk.)
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050 00 $aHQ1793.Z75$bA55 2012
100 1 $aAhmed, Leila.
245 12 $aA border passage :$bfrom Cairo to America--a woman's journey /$cLeila Ahmed.
260 $aNew York :$bPenguin Books,$cc2012.
300 $aviii, 318, 10 p. ;$c20 cm.
500 $a"First published in the United States of America by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999"--T.p. verso.
500 $a"With a new afterword"--Cover.
500 $aIncludes a Penguin readers guide to A border passage.
505 00 $gPt. 1.$tIn the House of Memory --$tEgypt: The Background --$tFrom Colonial to Postcolonial --$tIn Expectation of Angels --$tTransitions --$tHarem --$tSchool Days --$tSuez --$tThe Harem Perfected? --$gPt. 2.$tRunning from the flames that lit the sky --$tPenalties of dissent --$tIn the groves of white academe --$tFrom Abu Dhabi to America --$gEpilogue.$tCairo moments.
520 $aLeila 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.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
600 10 $aAhmed, Leila.
650 0 $aWomen$zEgypt$vBiography.
650 0 $aMuslim women$zEgypt$vBiography.
650 0 $aWomen in Islam$vBiography.
650 0 $aEgyptians$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0 $aFeminism.