Reading list

The Arab Renaissance (the Nahda)

Den arabiska renässansen (al-Nahda)

Course
AR2208
Second cycle
7.5 credits (ECTS)

About the Reading list

Valid from
Autumn semester 2024 (2024-09-02)
Decision date
2024-06-19

Booth, Marilyn, May her Likes be Multiplied: Biography and Gender Politics in Egypt, Berkley: University of California Press, 2002. (c. 100 pages). Available as E-book in the university library.


El-Ariss, Tarek, The Arab Renaissance. A Bilingual Anthology of the Nahda. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2018. (c. 150 pages)


El-Ariss, Tarek, Let There Be Nahdah! Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry” 2:2 (2015): 260–266.


Elsadda, Hoda, Gender, Nation, and the Arabic Novel. Egypt 1892-2008, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. Introduction + Part One, pp. xiii – 73. (c. 100 pages). Open access: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt3fgt5v


Hayek, Ghenwa, Experimental Female Fictions; Or, The Brief Wondrous Life of the Nahḍa Sensation Story, Middle Eastern Literatures 16:3 (2013): 249–265.