Celebrate Women's History Month With These Reads on Women Throughout History
Written by Aidan Dodson. AUC Press, 2020.
Nefertiti, Queen and Pharaoh of Egypt: Her Life and Afterlife
Egyptologist Aidan Dodson goes beyond the scholarship before him by meticulously chronicling the life of Ancient Egyptian Nefertiti, beginning with her marriage to Pharaoh Amenhotep IV, and offers new theories on her origin 3,000 years ago.
Written by Laura S. Schor. Syracuse UP, 2019.
Sophie Halby in Jerusalem: An Artist's Life
This richly detailed biography of Sophie Halaby (1906–1997) uncovers the career of a pioneering Palestinian Russian artist whose life spanned most of a tempestuous 20th century, but whose art captured the timeless beauty of her adopted home: Jerusalem.
Radwa Ashour. Tr. Michelle Hartman. Olive Branch Press, 2018.
The Journey: Memoirs of an Egyptian Women Student in America
This autobiographical account, first published in Arabic in 1983 (Al-rihla: ayyam talibah misriyah fi amrika), by one of Egypt’s most-acclaimed novelists, provides an intimate, often charmingly unfiltered reaction to a new world encountered in the ’70s as a university student in the States.
Written by Muna Tatari and Klaus von Stosch. Tr. Peter Lewis. Gingko, 2021.
Mary in the Qur’an: Friend of God, Virgin, Mother
has fascinated followers of Christinity and Islam for centuries. With this book, translated from its original German, authors Muna Tatari, an Islamic theology professor at Germany’s Paderborn University, and Klaus von Stosch, a Catholic theology professor at Bonn University, examine the place that Mary—or Maryam, as she is known in the Qur’an—occupies in Islam.
Hossein Kamaly. One World Publications, 2019.
A History of Islam in 21 Women
This encyclopedic collection of biographies explores the lives of 21 women who have “shaped many aspects of the history of Islam.” Included are women from the Arabian Peninsula, Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia and the United States.
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