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Nadia, captive of hope : memoir of an Arab woman / Fay Afaf Kanafani ; introduction by Lisa Suhair Majaj.
LIBRA E184.A65 K36 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kanafani, Fay Afaf.
- Series:
- Foremother legacies
- Foremother legacies : autobiographies and memoirs of women from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kanafani, Fay Afaf.
- Arab American women--Biography.
- Arab American women.
- Women and war.
- Arab countries.
- Arab Americans--Biography.
- Arab Americans.
- Women's rights--Arab countries.
- Women's rights.
- Women and war--Arab countries.
- Beirut (Lebanon)--Biography.
- Beirut (Lebanon).
- California--Biography.
- California.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxxii, 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [1999]
- Summary:
- A rare feminist perspective on a people and a culture in one of the most tumultuous regions in the world, Nadia, Captive of Hope is the autobiography of Fay Afaf Kanafani, an Arab Muslim woman born in Beirut in 1918.
- Notes:
- "An East Gate book."
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 076560311X
- 0765603128
- OCLC:
- 39727754
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