About this title: A memoir of growing up "post-colonial" in Cairo under the rule of Nasser, and the author's experiences at Cambridge in the '60s. Ahmed became a professor of women's studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the author of WOMEN AND GENDER IN ISLAM.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Date Published: 04/1999
ISBN-13:9780374115180ISBN:0374115184
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 336 p. Ex-Library expected imperfections. read more
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 2000-06-01
ISBN-13:9780140291834ISBN:0140291830
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780140291834ISBN:0140291830
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 2000-06-01
ISBN-13:9780140291834ISBN:0140291830
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: 1999 Farrar, Straus and Giroux, NY; ISBN 0-374-11518-4
ISBN-13:9780374115180ISBN:0374115184
Description: 1st edition, hardcover, dust jacket; both the book & jacket are in fine condition, with clean, unmarked pages. The odyssey of an Egyptian woman, from Cario to England and then America. She is a Professor of Woman Studies today. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780374115180ISBN:0374115184
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 336 p. Audience: General/trade. Like new, pristine, unread, first edition. no marks, flaws or shelfwear. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC, New York, NY, U. S. A.
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780374115180ISBN:0374115184
Description: Good in G+ jacket. Ex-Library. 8vo. The dj is chipped and bumped. Very clean and tight copy with usual library markings. read more
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Date Published: 2000-06-01
ISBN-13:9780140291834ISBN:0140291830
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"I first heard of Ahmed's autobiography from an interview she did with Krista Tippet for Speaking of Faith. I was intrigued by her description of the harem in that interview -- which resonated -- but was unprepared for the copious amounts of history, Egyptian specifically and Middle Eastern generally. All along, I questioned what one had to do with the other -- which is only resolved in the last chapter."
"This book I just read for last months DOA book club. It was ok, its more of a memoir of Leila Ahmeds life growing up in Egypt at the time of British control and then the rule of Nasser. She is Muslim but not a practicing Muslim, that is she does not state anything negative about Islam in general as she really does not know much about her Islam. Its also of her coming to terms with her relationship with towards her mother."
"A fabulous read. Resonates with where I am at. I have strong socio-political views, I am on a journey of defining myself as "woman": remaining feminine, playing hard where necessary and being a black professional in the Gulf- very enlightening journey indeed"
"I got this book for Christmas - my husband picked it out all by his onesie! - and I hoped for better things than Ahmad delivered. This is a woman who has led an intriguing life...but she writes in a style that is at once ornate and tedious. I got the impression that she thinks of her life as "a woman's journey", and she writes about that; but I wanted to know about Leila, about who she was and is, and she is oddly careful to hide all that. This is a memoir that reads like a sociology text...dull, dull, dull."
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