HIST 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Moshe Dayan, East Jerusalem, Leila Ahmed
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Theme of immigration and imagining the experience abroad is important throughout the course. Sayyid qutub the america i"ve seen: he talks about immigration and moving to america, america as the promised land. Waugh ghali contrasting subjectivities in the world that he will live in when he gets to the west. Powerful theme of the imagining of a place where you can become yourself: self will be realized. This is a dominant theme in the period that leila addresses in a different way that is still present in her text. Her physical world (cairo and alexandria in the 1940s and 1950s) Her encounter with white feminism (the u. s. in the 1970s) Ain shams was a suburb next to heliopolis. The garden stands as a metaphor for leila"s isolation from real cairo. Leila"s account of the garden reminds us of amina ( lm: 4 women of egypt)
