Looking In the Mirror, Arab Women’s Memoirs – ARABLIT & ARABLIT QUARTERLY
In conversation with Ursula Lindsey and M Lynx Qualey
Author, commentator and human rights advocate Khaled Mansour joins us to talk about how reading Arab women’s memoirs can help one gain a new understanding of the region’s collective history. After he worked with Egyptian psychoanalyst and feminist Afaf Mahfouz to write her autobiography, Mansour began a journey through Arab women’s memoirs set to culminate in his forthcoming podcast, المرآة (The Mirror). One of the many books he discusses with us is Palestinian revolutionary Leila Khaled’s account of her life and militancy, published in 1973, My People Shall Live.
Listen to the full episode here.
Show notes:
You can find Leila Khaled’s My People Shall Live available free through the Internet Archive.
Afaf Mahfouz’s من الخوف إلى الحرية is available from Kotob Khan.
Links to Khaled Mansour’s work can be found on his website.
Memoirs by Nawal El Saadawi, Arwa Saleh, Huda Shaarawi, Latifa al-Zayyat, Radwa Ashour are available in English translation. A list of Khaled Mansour’s recommended life-writing will be available tomorrow here at ArabLit.
