America in an Arab Mirror

Images of America in Arabic Travel Literature: An Anthology

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Edited by Kamal Abdel-Malek

Palgrave

Due/Published May 2000, 160 pages, cloth

ISBN 0312229631

Travel essays by Arabic writers who have visited America in the second half of the century. The writers represent a variety of viewpoints, regions, and backgrounds, and their descriptions of America differently engage and revise Arab pre-conceptions of Americans and the West. America is portrayed in variouis ways from the unchanging Other, the very antithesis of the Arab self, to the seductive female, to the Other who is both praiseworthy and reprehensible.

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