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Nahdet Masr

Nahdet Masr: Woman, Sphinx, and the Question of Modernity


Posted by tasnim on 01 Apr 2013 / 0 Comments
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In Egyptian writer Ahdaf Soeuif’s novel, The Map of Love, there is a scene that describes the statue Nahdet Masr (Rise of Egypt), a statue of a peasant woman unveiling as she stands next to the Sphinx: “The statue of Nahdet Masr rises before her: the statue at whose feet they had gathered in the […]

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