Leila Ahmed
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A Border Passage: From Cairo to America—A Woman's Journey
Leila Ahmed
A lyrical memoir—from Egyptian Muslim girlhood to American feminist womanhood.
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 the family’s opposition to Nasser’s policies led to persecutions that would set their youngest child on a journey across cultures and through some of the major transformations of our century: the end of colonialism and the European empires, the…
