Title: Interesting read!
Product review: I read this for a class on Modern Egyptian History, but as a work of historical fiction I'd recommend it anyhow. This book provides a feminist perspective of life in Egypt in the 1950s. Although the book seems to criticize romance novels, it seems to me that the book fell into many of the same problems (although this is not a shallow romance novel). Everyone is trapped in these political marriages and desires to break free to be with their true love.In my class, we compared society as described in this book to society in the early 20th century, as described in al-Hakim's Return of the Spirit. It is interesting to use the two books to see how much society has changed (and to see how, in some ways, Egypt today is more similar to Egypt at the start of the 20th century than in the mid-20th century).
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