Women writing Africa. The Northern region / edited by Fatima Sadiqi ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sadiqi, Fatima.

Series:

Women writing Africa project ; v. 4.

The women writing Africa project ; v. 4

Language:

English

Multiple languages

Subjects (All):

North African literature--Women authors--Translations into English.

North African literature.

Women authors.

Physical Description:

xxv, 428 pages ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Northern region

Place of Publication:

New York : The Feminist Press at The City University of New York, 2009.

Contents:

The Ancients: fifteenth century BCE to fourth century CE. My falcon rises high / Hatshepsut ; A Proposal of marriage / Ankhesen-pa-Atun ; Love songs / Anonymous ; Lament of Isis and Nephthys / Anonymous ; A complaint / Philista, daughter of Lysias ; Request for a guardian / Nikaia, daughter of Nikias ; About a little girl / Apollonous ; Letter to a brother / Ptolema ; I am a Christian saint / Saint Vivia Perpetua ; A mother seeks legal independence / Aurelia Thaisous ; To the memory of Aelia Secundula / Statulenia Julia ; Let women not be misled / Saint Syncletica

Islam: seventh century to eighteenth century. A letter to a woman friend / Om Makina ; A plea for money / Anonymous ; Two Tunisian poems / Mahriyya Al-Aghlabiya and Khadija Ben Kalthoum ; Freeing a slave woman / Astour Heyoh ; Using the right of severance / Sara, daughter of Abboud Al-Nahid ; Love poems / Hafsa Bint Al-Rakuniya ; Consolation and other poems / Fatma-Setita ; Escaping the Inquisition / Ana de Melo ; Two political letters / Lalla Khnata Bint Bakkar ; A letter about female slaves / Lalla Fatima ; Struggle for a throne / Shehrazad

Nineteenth century to early twentieth century. Laʾrubiyat, or Women's songs / Anonymous ; Poem to my daughter / Aisha Al-Taymouria ; Aissa the Fox / Kharboucha ; The Eastern woman: how she is and how she should be / Labiba Hashim ; The choice of a husband / Zeinab Fawwaz ; Polygamy / Malak Hifni Nassef ; Resistance / Tawgrat Walt Aissa NʾAyt Sokhman ; Letter from exile / Saphia Zagloul ; Response to Reactionaries / Helmeya Yousry, pseud. ; Women's rights / Mounira Thabet ; Two defiant poems / Mririda NʾAyt Atiq ; Visiting a dead mother / Blanche Bendahan ; Higher education for women / Asma Fahmy ; On young women's education / Al-Fatat, pseud. ; A furious woman / Soheir El-Qalamawi ; The lost hope / Nahed Taha Abdel Ber ; Yes to education and no to marriage / Nabaweya Moussa ; Honoring Dr. Tawhida Ben Cheikh / Bchira Ben Mrad

Mid-twentieth century. Letter to a friend / Badyʾa Sabbah-Allah ; An important step for girls' education / Malika El-Fassi ; Should women enter Al-Azhar? / Fatma Neʾmat Rashed ; Letter to the Prime Minister / Huda Shaarawi ; A princess speaks, unveiled / Lalla Aisha ; The best type of publicity / Doria Shafik ; An opening speech / Habiba Guessousa ; Tales from the Zogheb saga / Eugenie Sinano Horwitz ; Women's emancipation / Alia Khsasiya ; The heiress / Aisha Abdel Rahman ; To Lalla Radian, our eternal lighthouse / Zhor Lhiyania... [et al] ; Alienation / Djamila Débêche ; Removal of the veil and decency / Fatima Kabbaj ; Sentenced to death / Baya Hocine ; There is no exile / Assia Djebar ; Testimony of torture / Djamila Boupacha ; Two prison poems / Zhor Zerari ; I no longer love passionately / Galila Reda ; Aunt Noor / Wadida Wassef ; Outcast and exile / Fadhma Ait Mansour Amrouche

Late twentieth century. Come back in two weeks / Khnata Bennani ; I want to tell you / Rabha Moha ; Two poems: Prison and the prostitutes / Saida Menebhi ; Torture in prison / Zainab Al-Ghazali ; The rose / Amina Wahib ; On prostitution / Aicha Mekki ; Fatima and the ogress / El-Hajja Rqia ; Wake up, sisters / Fatima Tabaamrant ; Women and political Islam / Fatima Mernissi ; The gramophone / Amina Arfaoui ; Mother goat: a folk tale / Samira Tolba Abdel Tawab ; Worms in the rose garden / Salwa Bakr ; Take my bracelet and other songs / Communal ; One million signatures / Latifa Jbabdi and L'Union de L'Action Féminine ; Thorny spaces suddenly moving / Fatma Kandil ; In her own mirror / Latifa Al-Zayyat ; Writing and freedom / Nawal El Saadawi ; An artist who unsettles: an interview and a song / Malouma Bint Moktar Ould Meidah ; Defiances: an interview and a poem / Mubaraka Bint Al-Barra ; Accused of heresy / Radwa Ashour ; Why was my son assassinated? / Naima Boucharef ; Breaking silence / Moufida Tlati ; Why some women write poetry / Tassadit Yacine and Nouara ; Rites / Buthayna Khadr Mekky ; Who is Fathia el Assal / Fathia el Assal ; The magic journey / Samira El Ghaly El Hajj ; Framed women / Huda Lutfi ; Lullaby to a daughter / Fatma Ramadan

The new century. Two stories of a house / Leila Abouzeid ; Gamalek: the master of all birds / Tafidah Mahmoud Abdel Aghany ; Love and militancy: oral testimonies / Safia Oraho ; Two slaves, mother and daughter / Maria Bent Itto Brahim ; Songs of separation and union / Rabea Qadiri ; Two feisty tales / Lalla Mina Lamrani ; The call of Hagar / Hafsa Bekri-Lamrani ; So as not to forget the dreams of Qasim Amin / Ekbal Baraka ; O bride: Berber wedding song / Hadda NʾAyt Hssain ; Love is like water / Samia Serageldin ; Gifts of time / Faiza W. Shereen ; Duo / Azza Filali ; Progress for women is progress for all / Nouzha Skalli-Bennis ; The flower of all earthly creatures / Communal (Lalla Fatima) ; A Jewish Moroccan childhood / Yaëlle Azagury ; Girls' honor and intellectuals' shame / Mona Abousenna ; Rights of political representation / Mona Makram-Ebeid ; From this day forth, I will carry my mother's name / Mona Nawal Helmi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-423) and index.

ISBN:

155861589X

9781558615885

1558615881

9781558615892

OCLC:

212432571

Publisher Number:

99954261633