Ahmed reflects on her childhood in Egypt and her search for an identity in England and the United States.
Leila Ahmed grew up in Cairo in the 1940s and '50s in a family that was eagerly and passionately political. Although many in the Egyptian upper classes were firmly opposed to change, the Ahmeds were proud supporters of independence. But when the Revolution arrived, the family's …
Leila Ahmed grew up in Cairo in the 1940s and '50s in a family that was eagerly and passionately political. Although many in the Egyptian upper classes were firmly opposed to change, the Ahmeds were proud supporters of independence. But when the Revolution arrived, the family's …
This study provides a comparative analysis of various emerging spaces of creativity, self-discovery and transformation, as portrayed in six contemporary Arab women's texts: Ahdaf Soueif's In the Eye of the Sun , Leila Ahmed's A Border Passage from Cairo to America--a Woman's Jou…
This study of the rhetoric of Arab American autobiography examines “the rhetoric of cultural encounter” in the autobiographies of three post-1948 Arab American writers: Edward Said's Out of Place , Leila Ahmed's A Border Passage, and Fawaz Turki's Exile's Return. The three autho…