Description:
13 case studies challenge the prevailing view that the 1890s in Egypt was a time of withdrawal and quiescence and, for the first time, gives you a wide ranging and theoretically coherent study of a period that was crucial to the formation of modern Egypt.
Brief description: Marilyn Booth is Khalid bin Abdallah Al Saud Professor for the Study of the Contemporary Arab World, University of Oxford. Her most recent monograph, The Career and Communities of Zaynab Fawwaz: Feminist Thinking in Fin-de-siècle Egypt (2021), is amongst numerous publications on early feminism, translation, and Arabophone women's writing in Egypt and Ottoman Syria. Initiator of the Ottoman Translation Studies Group, she edited Migrating Texts: Circulating Translations around the Ottoman Mediterranean (Edinburgh University Press, 2019). Translator of eighteen published works of fiction and memoir from the Arabic, she was co-winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize for her translation of Jokha Alharthi's Celestial Bodies.
Review Quotes: A much-needed set of studies that challenge prevailing assumptions about Egyptian political, social and intellectual passivity during the Cromer period. Breaks new ground with respect to the country's receptivity to, and participation in, global trends.-- "Roger Owen, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University"