Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories (African Writers)
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Book
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ISBN 10
0435909126
ISBN 13
9780435909123
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Unknown
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Publication Year
1987
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Pages
126
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More convincingly than any other woman writing in Arabic today, Alifa Rifaat, an Egyptian, lifts the veil on what it means to be a woman living within a traditional Muslim society. Her writing articulates a subtle revolt against, and a sympathetic insight into, the place of women in the essentially male-dominated Islamic environment. Change, development, and understanding are called for but the invocation is couched in specifically Arab terms; her inspiration lies not in the Women's Movement of the West but remains within a strictly religious, even Orthodox Qur'anic framework. - from Amzon
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