Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration and Pronunciation
Glossary
Introduction
Chapter One: The Miqaddis Bishai
Chapter Two: Aunt Safiyya
Chapter Three: The Outlaws
Chapter Four: Al-naksa
Epilogue
Bahaa' Taher, who lives in Geneva, has written three novels and several collections of short stories. This novel, his most recent, is the first to appear in English. Barbara Romaine teaches Arabic at the College of William and Mary.
"Beyond the events, Taher draws a very lively portrait of a woman of Islamic civilization in the 1960s, where women, holding their chador between their teeth while their hands serve their men, play the part of the protagonists who are silent but very powerful in the life of the community--a community that is disintegrating with the departure of women for the social emanicipation offered by the big city, and with the end of Safiyya [the book's heroine] and of the superstitions that have persecuted her, as for millenia they have persecuted Egypt, crushed by its myths and by cultural tradition immobilized by time."--"Il Sole 24 Ore
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