Arab Women Writers

Arab women''s writing in the modern age began with ''A''isha al-Taymuriya, Warda al-Yaziji, Zaynab Fawwaz, and other nineteenth-century pioneers in Egypt and the Levant. This unique study-first published in Arabic in 2004-looks at the work of those pioneers and then traces the development of Arab women''s literature through the end of the twentieth century, and also includes a meticulously researc...