Khul-KhaalFive Egyptian Women Tell Their Stories (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East) UNICEF Prize 1990
by
Nayra Atiya
Ramza: by Out El Kouloub,
Introduced and Translated by
Nayra Atiya
 
Zanouba: by Out El Kouloub,  Introduced and Translated by
 
Nayra Atiya

 
Three Tales of Love and Death: by Out El Kouloub,
Introduced and Translated by
Nayra Atiya
 
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From Publishers Weekly

For Atiya, translating Ramza is clearly a labor of love, a journey back to her own Egyptian childhood. Starting from Egyptian writer Out el Kouloub's (1892-1968) stark French original, Atiya has added not only the odd adjective but also detailed descriptions from her own childhood memories to create, as she says in her introduction, "an ornamented translation." But the tender evocation of the past should not disguise the fact that this is a feminist novel. Written in 1958 as one of five novels portraying Egyptian women from varying social classes, it depicts Ramza, the daughter of a Serbian slave and a wealthy Egyptian.

 

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