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A Border Passage: From Cairo to America-A Woman's Journey
A Border Passage From Cairo to AmericaA Woman's Journey
Author: Leila Ahmed
A lyrical memoir--from Egyptian Muslim girlhood to American feminist womanhood. 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 the family's opposition to N...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780374115180
ISBN-10: 0374115184
Publication Date: 4/1999
Pages: 307
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Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux (T)
Book Type: Hardcover
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Very moving and powerful book!
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Well-written, eye-opening account of the author's wonderful life as a child as an Islamic woman in Egypt, her pull to more freedom and education, her conflicted feelings coming to terms with women's issues in America.
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