Seen and heard : a century of Arab women in literature and culture / by Mona N. Mikhail.

1. Growing up in Egypt at the turn of the 20th century
2. The mother of the bride frantically prepares: Egyptian wedding customs
3. I want a solution: films and social change
4. I light ten candles: women and vow-making
5. "A new vision of the veil," by Iqbal Baraka
6. "Women in the discourse of crisis," by Nasr Hamid Abu-Zeid
7. Nabawiyya Musa and al-Tahir al-Haddad in a virtual debate with Anwar al-Guindi
8. Al-Sitt Hoda: a comedy in defense of women
9. Modern-day Shahrazads
10. Ambiguity and relevance in the works of Khannatha Bannuna
11. Images of women in North African literature: myth or reality?
12 Masculine ideology or feminine mystique: a study of writings on Arab women
13. Women, love, and sex in Yusuf Idris's city: an existential dilemma
14. A compromise of the road to happiness: love in Naguib Mahfouz's repetoire.