Opening the gates: a century of Arab feminist writing

Growing up to be a woman writer in Lebanon / Etel Adnan

Warda al-Turk / Warda al-Yaziji

Who are you, Claire Gebeyli? / Nadia Tueni

Difficult journey, mountainous journey / Fadwa Tuqan

Farewell, bethrothal, wedding (c. 1945) / Huda Shaarawi

Amina / Shirley Saad

The protected one / Samira Azzam

Seventy years later / Ulfa Idelbi

Lecture on clitoridectomy to the midwives of Touil / Zainaba

Who'll be the man? ; Honour / Alifa Rifaat

I saw her and that's enough ; In a contemporary house / Khairiya Saqqaf

Hasan's wives / Wadida Wassef

People / Nadia Guendouz

Women, nationalism and religion in the Algerian struggle / Marie-Aimée Helie-Lucas

The eyes in the mirror / Daisy al-Amir

The silk bands / Noha Radwan.

The results of circumstances in words and deeds ; Family reform / Aisha al-Taimuriya

Bad deeds of men : injustice / Bahithat al-Badiya

Our constitution : we the liberated women / Ghada Samman

September birds / Emily Nasrallah

A girl called apple / Hanan al-Shaikh

The house of obedience / Ihsan Assal

The excised / Evelyne Accad

House of arrest / Andrée Chedid

Personal papers / May Muzaffar

My mother / Fadhma Amrouche

Rima / Samar Attar

Eyes / Nawal al-Saadawi

The dawn of the Arabic Women's Press / Hind Nawfal

Fair and equal treatment / Zainab Fawwaz

A lecture in the club of the Umma Party / Bahithat al-Badiya

Warda al-Yaziji / May Ziyada

The elopement and the impossible joy / Qut al-Qulub

The effects of books and novels and morals ; The differences between men and women / Nabawiya Musa.

Unveiling and veiling ; The young woman and the shaikhs / Nazira Zain al-Din

Double standard / Saiza Nabarawi

The voice of happiness / Zoubeida Bittari

The gate of heaven is open / Farida Benlyazid

Two faces, one woman / Nuha Samara

From Tumbling on the snow / Huda Naamani

Who's cleverer, man or woman? / Fatima Mernissi

My life / Chaibia

Eight eyes / Sufi Abdallah

Pan-Arab feminism / Huda Shaarawi

Arab women's intellectual heritage / Zahiya Dughan

We Egyptian women / Inji Aflatun

Islam and the constitutional rights of women / Duriya Shafiq

Feast of unveiling ; Why Reverend Shaikh? / Amina Said

Challenges facing young women in the twentieth century / Nahid Toubia

Legal rights of the Egyptian women / Group of Egyptian Women.

An unveiled voice / Amatalrauf al-Sharki

Introduction to Nawal al-Saadawi's Ferdaous / Assia Djebar

Reflections of a feminist / Nawal al-Saadawi.