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The open door

Title: The open door / Latifa al-Zayyat ; translated by Marilyn Booth.
Author: Zayyāt, Laṭīfah.
Publication: Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, ©2000.

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Additional Authors

Booth, Marilyn

Description

364 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"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 British, French, and Israeli invasion."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Modern Arabic writing

Uniform Title

Bāb al-maftūḥ. English
Modern Arabic writing

Alternative Title

Bāb al-maftūḥ.

Subject

Genre/Form

Fictional Work
Fiction
Translations (form)
Novels (texts)
Fiction.
Romans.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. xxx-xxxi).

Language (note)

‏اسم الاصل العربي: الباب المفتوح.

ISBN

9774246039
9789774246036

LCCN

2001301740
99971602846

OCLC

ocm46402321
46402321
SCSB-1211496

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library