Naqib's Daughter
- Location
- North Carolina,
- Birthday
- November 11
- Bio
- Born and raised in Egypt, educated at London University, immigrated to the United States in the eighties. Author of two novels, The Cairo House, about growing up in a political family in Nasser's Egypt, and The Naqib's Daughter, about Bonaparte's occupation of Egypt in 1798. A collection of short stories, Love is Like Water, addresses in part Arab Americans post 9/11. Also published nonfiction on Islam, Egypt, women in Muslim societies, and terrorism. Have taught at university and in journalism. An editor of South Writ Large, an online magazine of stories, arts and ideas from the Global and US Souths.
MY RECENT POSTS
- The Egyptian Feminist's
Dilemma: Mona Eltahawy
April 29, 2012 05:18PM - Egypt's Presidential
Primaries: Everything at Stake
April 27, 2012 03:32PM - The Crazy Woman is Back:
Egypt's Social Rift
March 28, 2012 11:20AM - The Dead Pope Rises: Coptic
Conundrum in Egypt
March 20, 2012 01:08PM - Whither Egypt on International
Women's Day?
March 08, 2012 12:59PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Brunhilde, of course she
is not my 'enemy'! But neither
was
my loving and
wonderf…”
May 07, 2012 05:01PM - “In response to Torrito,
I think we are agreed as to
how
abhorrent a practice
FGC…”
May 01, 2012 11:50AM - “Thank you for you long
and thoughtful response, Clay
Ball.
You seem to have
unusu…”
April 30, 2012 01:19PM - “In answer to the
question of why Saudi Arabia
recalled its
ambassador to
Egypt, i…”
April 30, 2012 01:06PM - “And in a sign of how
unsettled things are in Egypt,
the
decision to exclude the
m…”
April 29, 2012 10:13AM
Naqib's Daughter's Links
- New list
- The Cairo House
Sarkozy, the Niqab, and human nature
Sarkozy, the Niqab and the state as guardian of women
Personally and politically, I tend to lean, with Montaigne, toward tailoring one's behavior to the mores of the country. But from there, to legislating how people must or must not dress, is not a straight line. To some extent, all societies have minimal standards of decency they enforce by law:… Read full post »
Why all your comments are right, but...Freedom vs Justice
The thought-provoking perspectives of the comments I'm receiving on my last post deserve a fuller response. I agree that Iran's electoral process- "democracy" is too loaded a word- is more advanced than that of most of the countries in the Middle East. For one thing, "assembly" i… Read full post »
Before the demonstrations started, I admit I watched the Iranian elections with something like envy: in Egypt since the 1952 coup d'état, there are no presidential elections per se, just a yes/no referendum on a single candidate- the one in power- and the results are a foregone conclusion: 99./… Read full post »
Response to comments on the Aciman post
Thank you, Jonathan in Tel Aviv, for your interest. Your analogy is interesting, but doesn't hold up in one respect; the Palestinians have always lived in what is Israel since 1948; whereas the Alexandrian Jewish community, overwhelmingly, were recent immigrants, rarely going back… Read full post »
Egypt's Jews: What Aciman's Article Lacks
Egypt’s Jews: what Andre Aciman’s article lacks
I read Andre Aciman’s opinion piece in the New York Times today with mixed emotions. If any Muslim Egyptian can empathize with the dispossession and displacement of Egyptian Jews, it is I and families like mine. I can understand… Read full post »
A Voice of America interview that went off the rails
An hour ago Voice of America called for the program "l’Amerique et vous"; I was on a panel about Obama's Cairo speech, with the Washington correspondent for Middle East Times. A Georgetown professor who called in with a short opinion piece surprisingly found fault with President Obama's speech… Read full post »
Obama in Cairo: speaking truth from power
Will Obama avoid the pitfalls of Bonaparte in Egypt?
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As an Egyptian American who attended Cairo University in the seventies when there was nary a headscarf in sight, I am holding my breath in anticipation of the tightrope act President Obama must pull off with his speech tomorrow. Quite apart from the policy issues toward Egyptian lack of democracy and
… Read full post »
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