Modern Arabic Literature

Primary sources

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· Hoda El Sadda, ‘Latifa al-Zayyat: Gender and Nationalist Politics’ in Gender, Nation, and the Arabic Novel: Egypt, 1892-2008 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012), pp. 97-118.

secondary sources

Beth Baron, ‘Nationalist Iconography’, Egypt as a Woman: nationalism, gender, and politics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005), pp. 57-81.

Laura Bier, ‘Egyptian Women in Question: The Historical Roots of State Feminism’ in Revolutionary Womanhood: Feminisms, Modernity, and the State in Nasser’s Egypt (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011), pp. 23-59.

Nadje Al-Ali, Gender, Secularism and the State in the Middle East: The Egyptian Women's Movement (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).

Margot Badran, Feminists, Islam and Nation: Gender and the Making of Modern Egypt (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995).