America in an Arab mirror : images of America in Arabic travel literature : an anthology 1895-1995
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America in an Arab mirror : images of America in Arabic travel literature : an anthology 1895-1995
Palgrave Macmillan, c2000
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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"Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2000 978-0-312-22963-4"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This distinguished anthology presents for the first time in English travel essays by Arabic writers who have visited America in the second half of the century. The view of America which emerges from these accounts is at once fascinating and illuminating, but never monolithic. The writers hail from a variety of viewpoints, regions, and backgrounds, so their descriptions of America differently engage and revise Arab pre-conceptions of Americans and the West. The country figures as everything from the unchanging Other, the very antithesis of the Arab self, to the seductive female, to the Other who is both praiseworthy and reprehensible.
Table of Contents
America in the Eyes of a Nineteenth-Century Arab * A Stranger in the West: The Trip of Mikhail Asad Rustum to America, 1885-1894 - Mikhail Asad Rustum * The Making of an Image: America as the Unchanged Other, America as the Seductive Female * The America I Have Seen - Sayyid Qutb * An American Immigrant - Ahmad Mustafa * A Love Tour - Mahmud Awad * New York 80 - Yusuf Idris * America: The Dream and the Reality * America in the Eyes of an Easterner, Or Eight Years in the U.S. - Philip K. Hitti * Embers and Ashes: Memoirs of an Arab Intellectual - Hisham Sharabi * Land of Magic - Shafiq Jabri * My Days in America - Zaki Najib Mahmud * America [Top Secret] - Ahmad Haridi * The Washington Memoirs - Yusuf al-Hasan * America in the Eyes of Arab Women Travelers * America and I - Jadhibiyya Sidqi * An Egyptian Girl in America - Karima Kamal * The Trip: The Days of an Egyptian Female Student in America - Radwa Ashur * America's Other Face - Layla Abu Zayd * America...The Way It Is - Hala Sarhan * Satirical Views on America * Cheerful America of the Past - Mustafa Amin * My Story with Ivana Trump - Ali Salim * America, You Cheeky Devil - Mahmud al-Saadani * The Sabeel - Kamal Abdel-Malek
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