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Latifa Al-Zayyat

Born

in Dumyat, Egypt

August 08, 1923

Died

September 10, 1996

Website

http://www.latifaalzayyat.net

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Latifa Zayyat (Arabic: لطيفة الزيات; variant English spelling: Latifa al-Zayyat) was an Egyptian feminist writer and academic.
As a student attending Cairo University in the 1940s, where she was part of left-wing and feminist movements on campus. She was later imprisoned for her political view (during the presidency of Anwar Sadat
Zayyat was Professor of English at Ain Shams University. She publishing critical studies on American and English writers, as well as short stories in her native Arabic.
Her novel al-Bab al-Maftuh (The Open Door, translated into English by Marilyn Booth in 2000) is a classic of Middle Eastern feminism, whose female protagonist is - like the author - a radical fighting colonialism and middle class values as well as s ...more

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	الباب المفتوح by Latifa Al-Zayyat, لطيفة الزيات 4.19 avg rating — 3,650 ratings — published 1960 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	أوراق شخصية: حملة تفتيش by Latifa Al-Zayyat, لطيفة الزيات 3.68 avg rating — 451 ratings — published 1992 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	صاحب البيت by Latifa Al-Zayyat, لطيفة الزيات 2.95 avg rating — 195 ratings — published 1994 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	الشيخوخة وقصص أخرى by Latifa Al-Zayyat, لطيفة الزيات 3.36 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 1986	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	نجيب محفوظ: الصورة والمثال by Latifa Al-Zayyat, لطيفة الزيات 3.44 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	الرجل الذي عرف تهمته by Latifa Al-Zayyat, لطيفة الزيات 3.46 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	من صور المرأة في القصص والروايات العربية by Latifa Al-Zayyat, لطيفة الزيات 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1989	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	كل هذا الصوت الجميل : مختارات قصصية لكاتبات عربيات really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	حركة الترجمة الادبية من الإنجليزية إلى العربية في مصر 1882-1925 ومدى ارتباطها بصحافة هذه الفترة by Latifa Al-Zayyat, لطيفة الزيات, خيري دومة (تحرير وتقديم) 3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	بيع وشرا by Latifa Al-Zayyat, لطيفة الزيات 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1965	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I love you, and I want you to love me. But I do not want you to lose yourself in me, or in anyone. Nor do I want you to draw your self-confidence and your trust in life from me or from anyone else. I want you to have your own individual, independent self, and the confidence that can only spring from the self, not from others. Then -When you have achieved that - no one will ever be able to crush you.”
― Latifa al-Zayyat, الباب المفتوح

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“There had been a time when she had regarded Gamila with a touch of disdain. She had considered herself stronger than Gamila, than her aunt, than her father - and stronger than their beliefs, their rules , their traditions. She had laughed with a certain superiority when her mother had said, 'The one who knows the fundamentals does not suffer.' Yes, she had existed for a time in the shadow of this silly illusion. But in truth it was she who was silly, trivial, conceited, and despicable. She was the doormat beneath people's soles.”
― Latifa al-Zayyat

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