Open Door

Name: Open Door
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ISBN: 9789774246982

ISBN-10: 9774246985

ISBN-13: 9789774246982

Edition: 2000

Authors: Latifa al-Zayyat, Marilyn Booth

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The Open Door is a landmark of women's writing in Arabic. Published in 1960, it was very bold for its time in exploring a middle-class Egyptian girl's coming of sexual and political age, in the context of the Egyptian nationalist movement preceding the 1952 revolution. The novel traces the pressures on young women and young men of that time and class as they seek to free themselves of family control and social expectations. Young Layla and her brother become involved in the student activism of the 1940s and early 1950s and in the popular resistance to continued imperialist rule; the story culminates in the 1956 Suez Crisis, when Gamal Abd al-Nasser's nationalization of the Canal led to a…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Publication date: 10/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 380
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English