Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist

Translator’s Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Prologue
1. Upbringing and family
My first school; Other childhood memories; Means of transport and new inventions; Weddings and funerals
2. Political events before the First World War
The trip to Cairo; My education (continued); Awakenings; The reform movement; The Paris Conference; The “Yellow” peril; First signs of a secret revolution; My studies at home; The Society for the Awakening of the Young Arab Woman
3. An engagement that was not completed
Jamal Pasha and his iniquities; The war period and my meeting with Jamal Pasha; Workshops and refugee shelters in wartime; The Muslim Girls’ Club and Ahmad Mukhtar Bayhum
4. The war’s end
Occupation and the Mandate; The Syrian Congress; My father’s opposition to the Mandate and his exile to Duma; French vindictiveness and severe financial losses for the family; The Lake Huleh story
5. Society for Women’s Renaissance
My trip to England; Returning to Beirut; Unveiling; The progress of feminism; Feminist conferences; Some pioneers of feminism
6. Back to the literary scene of the 1920s and beyond
Some women literary figures
7. The story of my marriage
Palestine my homeland; British policy in Palestine; Palestinian women; Zionist propaganda; Our literary and social life; Deir Amr; The Jericho Project; Jerusalem and the Arab College; Back to family life; My children
8. Exile
Loss of homeland, loss of partner
Index