Career and Communities of Zaynab Fawwaz

Zaynab Fawwaz (d. 1914) emerged from an obscure childhood in the Shi''I community of Jabal ''Amil (now Lebanon) to become a recognized writer on women''s and girls'' aspirations and rights in 1890s Egypt. This book insists on the centrality of gender as a marker of social difference to the Arabic knowledge movement then, or Nahda. Fawwaz published essays and engaged in debates in the Egyptian and ...