Download or read book Egypt Awakening in the Early Twentieth Century written by B. Khaldi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-23 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a detailed study of Mayy Ziy?dah's literary salon, Boutheina Khaldi sheds light on salon and epistolary culture in early twentieth-century Egypt and its role in Egypt's Nahdah (Awakening). Bringing together history, women's studies, Arabic literature, post-colonial literature, and media studies, she highlights the important and previously little-discussed contribution of Arabic women to the project of modernity.