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A Border Passage: From Cairo to America: A Woman's Journey by Leila AhmedReview by: Clarissa BurtFeminist Review, No. 69, The Realm of the Possible: Middle Eastern Women in Political andSocial Spaces (Winter, 2001), pp. 156-158Published by: Palgrave Macmillan JournalsStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1395637.
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OO entertainhose unfamiliar ith Arabic,but whichcertainly ddsto the
es
exoticism f the Englishext.
Ultimatelyhe novel'ssuccess s troubledby the inescapablemergent
uncertaintyoncerninghepolitical orrectnessf present-dayultural nd
economicmperialism,ow with an Egyptianace, ustas the indignities
visitedupon he Egyptian eople n Cromer'simehaveceded o indigni-
tiesandactsof violence isitedbyEgyptianuthoritiesndreligiousanat-
ics.The rritatingndunresolveduestion f incest lsoseems uperfluous
- musteverything e reducibleo Oedipus fterall?Forall its flaws, he
imitationVictorian ovelwoven nto Soueif's wkward icultural illen-
nial reckoning f her relationship ith contemporarygyptmakeThe
Map of Lovewellworth he read.
Clarissa Burt
A Border Passage: From Cairo to America - a
Women's Journey
Leila Ahmed
New York: Farrar,Straus & Giroux, 1999
ISBN0374115184 24.00 Hbk
ISBN0140291830 13.95 Pbk (NY:Penguin, 2000)
LeilaAhmeds oneof themost mportantontemporaryiguresn thefield
of Gender ndWomen's tudies,speciallyn relationo thecontemporary
MiddleEast. Best known for her seminalbook entitledWomen and
Gender n Islam,LeilaAhmed ascontributed idely o openinghe field
andconferring epth o the western cademic iscussion f gendern the
MiddleEast, he Arabworldand Islam.Thisvolume, omprising per-
sonalmemoir,s a further ontributiono that ield,whileat thesame ime
annexing ew ntellectualpace ormulticulturalroductions.t is a post-
colonialmemoirunfolding he constructs f Ahmed'smulti-aspectual
identity,weddedbeautifullyo an exploration f the historical, olitical
and ntellectualircumstancesandchanges)n which hematured.
In a marvellousugueof spirallingmemories, eilaAhmed onducts s
through symphonic econstructionf the developmentf her identity
andconsciousness,ookingbackon herchildhoodn thegardens f privi-
lege n the thenwell-to-domulticulturalndreligiously luralistCairene
suburb f 'AinShams.Herrecollectionf the changesn thatgarden nd
the surroundingeighbourhoodver he course f her ifetimemarkand
measurehe amazing ocialand economic ransformationf Cairoas a
city,as wellas thepersonalortunes f her amily rom he 1940s hrough
the revolution ndNasser's ndSadat's egimes.
156
OO entertainhose unfamiliar ith Arabic,but whichcertainly ddsto the
es
exoticism f the Englishext.
Ultimatelyhe novel'ssuccess s troubledby the inescapablemergent
uncertaintyoncerninghepolitical orrectnessf present-dayultural nd
economicmperialism,ow with an Egyptianace, ustas the indignities
visitedupon he Egyptian eople n Cromer'simehaveceded o indigni-
tiesandactsof violence isitedbyEgyptianuthoritiesndreligiousanat-
ics.The rritatingndunresolveduestion f incest lsoseems uperfluous
- musteverything e reducibleo Oedipus fterall?Forall its flaws, he
imitationVictorian ovelwoven nto Soueif's wkward icultural illen-
nial reckoning f her relationship ith contemporarygyptmakeThe
Map of Lovewellworth he read.
Clarissa Burt
A Border Passage: From Cairo to America - a
Women's Journey
Leila Ahmed
New York: Farrar,Straus & Giroux, 1999
ISBN0374115184 24.00 Hbk
ISBN0140291830 13.95 Pbk (NY:Penguin, 2000)
LeilaAhmeds oneof themost mportantontemporaryiguresn thefield
of Gender ndWomen's tudies,speciallyn relationo thecontemporary
MiddleEast. Best known for her seminalbook entitledWomen and
Gender n Islam,LeilaAhmed ascontributed idely o openinghe field
andconferring epth o the western cademic iscussion f gendern the
MiddleEast, he Arabworldand Islam.Thisvolume, omprising per-
sonalmemoir,s a further ontributiono that ield,whileat thesame ime
annexing ew ntellectualpace ormulticulturalroductions.t is a post-
colonialmemoirunfolding he constructs f Ahmed'smulti-aspectual
identity,weddedbeautifullyo an exploration f the historical, olitical
and ntellectualircumstancesandchanges)n which hematured.
In a marvellousugueof spirallingmemories, eilaAhmed onducts s
through symphonic econstructionf the developmentf her identity
andconsciousness,ookingbackon herchildhoodn thegardens f privi-
lege n the thenwell-to-domulticulturalndreligiously luralistCairene
suburb f 'AinShams.Herrecollectionf the changesn thatgarden nd
the surroundingeighbourhoodver he course f her ifetimemarkand
measurehe amazing ocialand economic ransformationf Cairoas a
city,as wellas thepersonalortunes f her amily rom he 1940s hrough
the revolution ndNasser's ndSadat's egimes.
156
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