I Want to Get Married! One Wannabe Bride's Misadventures with Handsome Houdinis, Technicolor Grooms, Morality Police, and Other Mr. Not Quite Rights

Name: I Want to Get Married! One Wannabe Bride's Misadventures with Handsome Houdinis, Technicolor Grooms, Morality Police, and Other Mr. Not Quite Rights
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ISBN: 9780292723979

ISBN-10: 0292723970

ISBN-13: 9780292723979

Edition: 2010

Authors: Ghada Abdel Aal, Nora Eltahawy

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The rules may differ from country to country, but the dating game is a universal constant. After years of searching for Mr. Right in living-room meetings arranged by family or friends, Ghada Abdel Aal, a young Egyptian professional, decided to take to the blogosphere to share her experiences and vent her frustrations at being young, single, and female in Egypt. Her blog, I Want to Get Married!, quickly became a hit with both men and women in the Arab world. With a keen sense of humor and biting social commentary, Abdel Aal recounts in painful detail her adventures with failed proposals and unacceptable suitors. There's Mr. Precious, who storms out during their first meeting when he feels…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 10/1/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 174
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English

GHADA ABDEL AAL works as a pharmacist and continues to blog.

NORA ELTAHAWY is a graduate of the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo. She is currently pursuing a graduate degree in Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin where she plans to specialize in the literature of minorities and Arab-American fiction.



Introduction


Translator's Note


I Want to get Married!


The Beginning of the Story


The First


I Am Not a Good-for-Nothing


The Second


On Delicacy and Femininity


The Third


Yes, Love ... No, Love


The Fourth


In Defense of the Egyptian Woman ... the Bully


The Fifth


Habby Falantine


The Sixth


Here and There ... Now and Then


The Seventh


How to Hunt Down a Groom


A-Hunting We Go!


The Eighth


O. L. D. M. A. I. D.


The Ninth


Why Pay More ... When You Can Pay Less?


The Tenth


That Noha Chick Is Engaged! ... Whhhhhhyyyy?!


Thirties Girl


In the End


A Final Word