Marilyn Booth

Marilyn Booth

University of Oxford

Arab/ic Intellectual History, Gender History, Translation Studies

mbooth@ias.edu

Statement: Refinenement and reading: Arabic conduct pedagogy, 1860s-1920s focuses on overlapping genres (etiquette manuals, school-texts, marriage treatises, novels) in Arabic, produced mostly in Egypt. What are their gender-modulated visions for forming a modern polity, in the context of anxiety discourses over the reading and leisure habits of the young?

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Member in Residence for: First Term