Journal ArticleSouls · January 1, 2022
In a 1961 radio discussion about Black art and its relationship to Black nationalism, Lorraine Hansberry asked: “Is it necessary to integrate oneself into a burning house?” James Baldwin quoted Hansberry in The Fire Next Time without citing her—words that ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2018
The fin-de-siècle concept of “women’s liberation” attributed to Egyptian lawyer Qasim Amin (d. 1909) has been revived for the age of the Islamic awakening, both in state discourse and in writings of thinkers associated with the Islamic movement. Two major ...
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Book · June 9, 2015
In the decades leading up to the Arab Spring in 2011, when Hosni Mubarak's authoritarian regime was swept from power in Egypt, Muslim women took a leading role in developing a robust Islamist presence in the country's public sphere. Soft Force examines the ...
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Journal ArticleSouls · January 1, 2022
In a 1961 radio discussion about Black art and its relationship to Black nationalism, Lorraine Hansberry asked: “Is it necessary to integrate oneself into a burning house?” James Baldwin quoted Hansberry in The Fire Next Time without citing her—words that ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2018
The fin-de-siècle concept of “women’s liberation” attributed to Egyptian lawyer Qasim Amin (d. 1909) has been revived for the age of the Islamic awakening, both in state discourse and in writings of thinkers associated with the Islamic movement. Two major ...
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Book · June 9, 2015
In the decades leading up to the Arab Spring in 2011, when Hosni Mubarak's authoritarian regime was swept from power in Egypt, Muslim women took a leading role in developing a robust Islamist presence in the country's public sphere. Soft Force examines the ...
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Journal ArticleFeminist Theory · August 6, 2010
In Hiba Ra'uf's Woman and Political Work, she argues that the family is the basic political unit of the Islamic community or nation (the umma). Her thesis is both feminist and Islamist, as she argues that the 'private is political'. By drawing analogies be ...
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Journal ArticleResearch in African Literatures · September 1, 2009
This essay examines the politics of love in the Arabic novel: how love is used to envision a more just and egalitarian society. The marriage market, courtship practices, and kinship ties - which propagate and calcify gender and class hierarchies - prove fo ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of North African Studies · January 1, 2003
The uproar incited by Driss Chraibi's Le passé simple resulted from the political climate at the time of the novel's publication in 1954, skewing the interpretation of the text. The novel allegorically describes tensions between different political groups ...
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