Reading, Writing, and the Emergence of a Modern Nation, 1870-1930
by
Hoda A. Yousef
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
In this innovative history of reading and writing, Hoda Yousef explores how the idea of literacy and its practices fundamentally altered the social fabric of Egypt at the turn of the twentieth century. She traces how nationalists, Islamic modernists, bureaucrats, journalists, and early feminists sought...