Amira nowaira biography for kids

This memoir by an Egyptian woman is at once a personal journey and an investigation into the political and social construction of modern Egypt.

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Growing Up Feminist in a Muslim Land – Memoir

With passion and humor, author Amira
Nowaira recounts her experience growing up in in the sixties and traces the development of her
feminist sensibilities.

PRLog
(Press Release) – Nov 14, 2010 – , – 15 November 2010.

Author Amira Nowaira has published her
memoir Growing Up Feminist in a . This is the memoir of an Egyptian woman whose formative
years between the ages of ten and twenty spanned the 1960s and were spent in .

Amira Nowaira is a former chairperson of the department of English at Alexandria University and is currently professor of English literature in the same.

Amira Nowaira, Alexandria University: Followers, Following, 16 Research papers.

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Amira Nowaira: Reading English poetry at an Egyptian university in the 60s was an eye-opening, sometimes chastening experience.

“Amira Nowaira is an Egyptian academic, translator, columnist and author.

Although brought up traditionally in a Moslem
Arabic-speaking middle-class family, she is exposed to different cultural and
ideological influences, which at times clash, and more often merge, with her
original culture.

It is through this intricate mesh of cultural strands that
she tries to construct her personal identity against a backdrop of political,
ideological, and social upheavals. Witnessing first-hand the colossal changes
that happened during this period and their imp