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G&S Typesetters PDF proof I N D E X 225 Abbas, Ihsan, 76 Abd-el-Rahman, Awatif, 157 Abdel-Malek, Anouar, 3 Abdou, Shaikh Mohammad, 30 Abdul Dayem, Yahyia Ibrahim, 76, 77 al-Abiwardi, Abu al-Muzaffar Muhammad b. Ahmad, 79 Abu Odeh, Lama, 25–26 Achievement: and Memoirs from the Women’s Prison, 154, 158–159; and Mountainous Journey, Difficult Journey, 118, 159 Adams, Henry, 63 Addouha, 115 Aesthetics: and autobiographical writing , 55; and politics, 183–184 Afghan women, 5 Afghanistan, 5– 6 Agha, Bashir, 39 Agha, Said, 39 Ahmed, Leila, 24 –25, 182 Al-Jadid, 115 Al-Katiba, 182–183 Al-Saqi Books, 97, 147, 148 Alegría, Claribel, 62 Algeria, 8, 21, 23, 33 Ali, Mabarat Muhammad, 48 Ali, Muhammad, 28 Alienation: and Memoirs of a Woman Doctor, 137; and Mountainous Journey, Difficult Journey, 118–122 Amin, Qasim, 30 Aminah (Prophet’s mother), 79 Anderson, Linda, 61 Angelou, Maya, 67 Anthropology: and authenticity, 90; and construction of identity, xi; and KhulKhaal , 91–92, 93; and private/public dichotomy, 22. See also Ethnography Antihumanist feminism, 11–12 Arab culture, 7, 9, 17, 87 Arab feminism: and Arab women’s autobiographical writings, 97; definition of, 33–34; and education, 100; historical survey of, 27–34; and hostility against west, 26; and marriage, 111– 112; and Mountainous Journey, Difficult Journey, 129; and Orientalism, 16–17; and Said, 183; and Shaarawi, 30, 31, 35, 36–38, 39, 49, 52; and veil, 18, 24, 31. See also Feminism Arab identity: and Arabic language, 37; and autobiographical writings, 77; complexity of, xi; and Mountainous Journey, Difficult Journey, 117–118; and Shaarawi, 44 Arab women: and colonial feminism, 4 –5, 6; and identity, 15; and Islam, 17– 18; and nationalism, 16; and private/ public dichotomy, 22–23; and writing back discourse, 13, 15. See also Arab women’s autobiographical writings; Harem; Veil Arab Women Solidarity Association, 179–180 Arab women’s autobiographical writings : and audience, 81–82, 88, 96–97; and construction of identity, xi, xiv, 36; editors of, 15, 81–83, 114; and education , 98–101, 109; history of, 78– 81; and marriage, 109–112; and oppression , 74, 80, 87, 98, 101, 109, 113; and story-telling, 80. See also specific titles 13-T2696-IX 8/14/03 5:17 PM Page 225 G&S Typesetters PDF proof Arab world: changes in, 15, 16, 77, 181; definition of, 6, 7–9; homogenization of, xiii, 7; multicultural context of, 8, 9–10 Arabian Nights, The (Shahrazad), 48, 80–81 Arabian Peninsula, 8, 28 Arabic language: and Arab women’s autobiographical writings, 81, 82, 88, 97; and Arab world, 7–8; and class issues , 37; and Harem Years, 37, 49–52, 129; and Memoirs of a Woman Doctor, 144, 146; and Mountainous Journey, Difficult Journey, 116; and My Travels around the World, 167–168, 169 Aristotle, 55 Arrazi, Abou Bakr, 76 Arts: art/science tension, 132, 139, 141; and multiculturalism, 10 Ashbridge, Elizabeth, 69 Atiya, Nayra: and concealment, 95; interpretation of, 93; Khul-Khaal, 82, 87–94, 97–98, 102, 106, 107–109, 112; Shaaban compared to, 96; themes of, 97 al-Atrash, Laila, 181 Attar, Samar, 182 Audience: and Arab women’s autobiographical writings, 81–82, 88, 96–97; and Both Right and Left Handed, 96; and literary/nonliterary divisions, xiv; and Memoirs from the Women’s Prison, 160, 163; and My Travels around the World, 167. See also Readership Augustine, Saint, 63 Authenticity: and Arab women’s autobiographical writings, 90; and autobiographical writings, 60, 63, 70, 72, 73; and selfhood, xiii, 11 Autobiographical writings: and authenticity , 60, 63, 70, 72, 73; and class issues, 55, 56, 68, 70–71, 78, 83; and completed self, 57–58, 62, 66; and deconstruction , 58, 59– 60, 62; as genre, 51, 55, 57, 58, 59, 66, 70, 72; and heroism , 63– 66; history of Arab autobiographies , 75–78; and literary/nonliterary divisions, 55– 60, 63; and private/ public dichotomy, xii, 67, 68, 71; reception of, xiv; and referentiality, 61– 63; women’s autobiographies versus men’s, 66– 69; and women’s writing, 55, 56–57, 60, 61, 65–73. See also Arab women’s autobiographical writings Ayyam al-Arab (The Days of the Arabs), 75 Azzam, Samira, 181 Baalbaki, Leila, 107 Badran, Margot, 35, 38, 49–50, 51, 52 Barakat, Huda, 107, 181 Barnes, Mary, 136 Barrett, Michele, 184 Barrios, Domitila, 62 Barthes, Roland, 59, 66, 74 Beauvoir, Simone de, 137 al-Beiruni, Abou Arrayhan, 77 Benstock, Shari, 71, 72 Benveniste, Emile...