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Instructions are in the End Semester Assignment file. Please go through them. The Open Door (1960) by Latifa Al Zayyat will be used as one of the texts in relation to one of the topics (MARRIAGE) chosen from the PDF document. The second text that is used to compare is Zainab (1913) by Mohammed Hussein Haikal. Both texts are to be looked at from different aspects discussing marriage. e.g marriage and fundamentals in one paragraph or marriage and revolution in one etc. or just as a form of building a framework for the essay and giving it more structure. do not talk about marriage vaguely but set it in that Egyptian setting and within these two texts. give examples and quotes from these two texts along with some examples of secondary reading. use beth barren and for better or for worse readings where applicable. provide footnotes and good bibliography. good vocabulary and grammar.
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).
Primary Reading:
Zainab (1913), Mohammed Hussein Haikal
* Chapters 1&2 can be read in full on Google Books:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dxGSDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=zainab+novel&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjPmvCMpY7sAhWXTxUIHQKICfQQuwUwAXoECAYQBw#v=onepage&q&f=false
* Scanned extracts in pdf below
Core Reading:
Elliott Colla, ‘How Zaynab Became the First Arabic Novel,’ History Compass 7, no.1 (2009): 214-225. (pdf below)
Recommended Reading:
Roger Allen, ‘The Novel: Parameters of Definition’ in The Arabic Novel: An Historical and Critical Introduction (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1995), pp. 1-10.
Wen-chin Ouyang, ‘Prologue: Presenting the Past: The Arabic Novel and the Dialectics of Modernisation’ in Poetics of Love in the Arabic Novel: Nation-State, Modernity and Tradition (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012), pp. 1-34.
Samah Selim, The Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985 (London: Routledge, 2004).
Hanan Kholoussy, For Better, For Worse: The Marriage Crisis That Made Modern Egypt (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010).
Qasim Amin, The Liberation and Women and The New Woman, trans. Samiha Sidhom Peterson (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2000)
6ABA0009 Modern Arabic Literature
Autumn 2020
End Semester Assessment
Write an essay of four thousand words on one of the following topics. Regardless of the
topic you choose, you must refer to at least two literary texts of which at least one must be
on the 2020-2021 required reading list for module 6ABA0009.
Discuss any of the following themes within the parameters laid out above:
a. Time
b. Private and or Public Space
c. Urban Environments and or Rural Settings
d. Marriage
e. The Family
f. The Nation-state
g. The Body
h. Disability and or Illness
i. Revolution
j. Capitalism
k. Education
l. Resistance
m. Ethics and or Morality
n. Autobiography
o. Prison
Referencing style: MHRA
This style of referencing is common in the Arts & Humanities in the UK. It puts all the reference information, including full publication details when a work is first mentioned, in numbered footnotes. If noted again, a work is generally referred to by an abbreviated title.
All essays must also always include a bibliography at the end, listing all the works referred to in the essay. An entry in a MHRA style bibliography looks like this:
Byng, Howard, Reappraising World Music (London: Macmillan, 1999).
Sample footnotes
1. James A. Beckford, ‘The Restoration of “Power” to the Sociology of Religion’, in Church-State Relations, ed. by Thomas Robbins (New York: Transaction Publishers, 1987), pp. 13–37.
2. Allan G. Grapard, ‘Problematic Representations in the Study of Japanese Religions’, Religion, 21.4 (1991), 389–96.
3. Beckford, ‘Restoration’, p. 21.
4. Ibid., p. 23.
5. Akiko Yoshimoto, Religious Uprisings (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998).
6. Grapard, ‘Problematic Representations’, p. 392.
7. Yoshimoto, Uprisings, p. 302.
8. Kent Bach, ‘Performatives’, in Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Comments on the sample footnotes:
Fn. 1: This is the first mention in the notes of the work by Beckford, so full publication details are given. The title of the article is shown in single quote marks; “power” therefore gets double quote marks, even if originally it only had single quote marks. The book title is shown in italics. The full details of authors/editors, place, publisher and publication date (followed by the full span of page nos.) are given. If you wanted to refer to a particular page (eg. 14) in this first reference to the article, you would add it in brackets:
Fn. 2: In this case the work in which the article appears is a journal so the journal title is shown in italics. ‘21.4’ means ‘Volume 21, issue (or number) 4’.
Fn. 3: If only one work by Beckford is cited in your essay, this citation could read:
Fn. 4: If two successive notes refer to exactly the same work you can use ‘ibid.’ (meaning ‘same as previous’) in the second footnote.
Fn. 5: A straightforward book reference (so the book title is in italics).
Fn. 6: An abbreviated reference to an article cited earlier.
Fn. 7: An abbreviated reference to a book mentioned earlier (so the book title is in italics).
Fn. 8: A reference to an online database, including the author of the section and section name, name of full resource, online address (url or doi) in
The full Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA) style guide can be downloaded for free here:
http://www.mhra.org.uk/Publications/Books/StyleGuide/download.shtml