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Description:Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Egyptian Feminists, Leila Ahmed, Nawal El Saadawi, Jehan Al Sadat, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Wael Abbas, Hoda Shaarawi, Nabawiyya Musa, Suzy Kassem, Ester Fanous, Qasim Amin, Mona Eltahawy, Alaa Abd El-Fatah, Ayesha Al-Taymuriyya. Excerpt: Leila Ahmed (b. 1940; Arabic: ) is an Egyptian American professor of Women's Studies and Religion at the Harvard Divinity School. Prior to coming to Harvard, she was professor of Womens Studies and Near Eastern studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Cambridge before moving to the United States to teach and write. Born in the Heliopolis district of Cairo to an upper class family in 1940, Ahmed's childhood was shaped both by Muslim Egyptian values and the liberal orientation of Egypt's aristocracy under the ancient rgime. After Egypt's last ruling monarch was overthrown by the Free Officers Movement in 1952, life for Ahmed's family along with others in her milieu was irrevocably changed. Her father, a civil engineer, was a strong opponent of Gamal Abdel Nasser's construction of the Aswan High Dam on ecological principles. This earned him the wrath of the ruling regime for years to follow and had detrimental effects on the family. In her 1999 memoir A Border Passage, Ahmed describes her multicultural Cairene upbringing and her adult life as an expatriate and an immigrant in the West. She tells of how she was introduced to Islam through her grandmother during her childhood, and she came to distinguish it from "official Islam" as practiced and preached by a largely male religious elite. This realization would later form the basis of her first acclaimed book, Women and Gender in Islam (1993), a seminal work on Islamic history, Musl... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5017425We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Egyptian Human Rights Activists: Egyptian Feminists, Leila Ahmed, Nawal El Saadawi, Jehan Al Sadat, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Wael Abbas. To get started finding Egyptian Human Rights Activists: Egyptian Feminists, Leila Ahmed, Nawal El Saadawi, Jehan Al Sadat, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Wael Abbas, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 46

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Release: 2010

ISBN: 1157823696

Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Egyptian Feminists, Leila Ahmed, Nawal El Saadawi, Jehan Al Sadat, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Wael Abbas, Hoda Shaarawi, Nabawiyya Musa, Suzy Kassem, Ester Fanous, Qasim Amin, Mona Eltahawy, Alaa Abd El-Fatah, Ayesha Al-Taymuriyya. Excerpt: Leila Ahmed (b. 1940; Arabic: ) is an Egyptian American professor of Women's Studies and Religion at the Harvard Divinity School. Prior to coming to Harvard, she was professor of Womens Studies and Near Eastern studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Cambridge before moving to the United States to teach and write. Born in the Heliopolis district of Cairo to an upper class family in 1940, Ahmed's childhood was shaped both by Muslim Egyptian values and the liberal orientation of Egypt's aristocracy under the ancient rgime. After Egypt's last ruling monarch was overthrown by the Free Officers Movement in 1952, life for Ahmed's family along with others in her milieu was irrevocably changed. Her father, a civil engineer, was a strong opponent of Gamal Abdel Nasser's construction of the Aswan High Dam on ecological principles. This earned him the wrath of the ruling regime for years to follow and had detrimental effects on the family. In her 1999 memoir A Border Passage, Ahmed describes her multicultural Cairene upbringing and her adult life as an expatriate and an immigrant in the West. She tells of how she was introduced to Islam through her grandmother during her childhood, and she came to distinguish it from "official Islam" as practiced and preached by a largely male religious elite. This realization would later form the basis of her first acclaimed book, Women and Gender in Islam (1993), a seminal work on Islamic history, Musl... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5017425We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Egyptian Human Rights Activists: Egyptian Feminists, Leila Ahmed, Nawal El Saadawi, Jehan Al Sadat, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Wael Abbas. To get started finding Egyptian Human Rights Activists: Egyptian Feminists, Leila Ahmed, Nawal El Saadawi, Jehan Al Sadat, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Wael Abbas, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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