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Latifa Al Zayyat

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in Dumyat, Egypt

August 08, 1923

Died

September 10, 1996

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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 — 3,589 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 لطيفة الزيات, Latifa Al Zayyat 3.69 avg rating — 440 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 لطيفة الزيات, Latifa Al Zayyat 2.96 avg rating — 191 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 لطيفة الزيات, Latifa Al Zayyat 3.38 avg rating — 105 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 لطيفة الزيات, Latifa Al Zayyat 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
	بيع وشرا by لطيفة الزيات, Latifa Al Zayyat 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
	Den arabiske verden forteller by Gonvor Mejdell (Editor), Sabry Hafez (Editor), Yahya al-Tahir Abdallah (Contributor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	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
	LA VEJEZ Y OTROS RELATOS. TRADUCIDO DEL ARABE POR D. DEL MAR PADILLA GONZALEZ [Paperback] [Jan 01, 1990] ZAYYAT, L. AL- 0.00 avg rating — 0 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

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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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