1. Arab Women's Literary History -- Critical Response -- The Gulf War Story -- Gendering the Gulf War Story -- The Iraqi Version -- Migrating Stories -- 2. In Search of Mother Tongues -- Assia Djebar's Prisonhouse -- Albert Memmi's Struggles with His Mother -- Abdelkebir Khatibi's Bi-langue -- Jacques Derrida: "Le Petit Juif Francais d'Algerie" -- 3. Reviewing Beginnings -- Islamic Feminism -- Assia Djebar -- Fatima Mernissi -- Nawal El Saadawi -- 4. A Muslim Sister -- Zaynab al-Ghazali's Muslim Ladies' Association -- Survival in Hell -- Signs Taken for Wonders -- An Islamic Feminist Mission -- 5. Multiple Critique -- Critical Networking -- Imageness -- The Weight of the Veil -- 6. Changing the Subject -- Academic Politics
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