Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist The Life and Activism of Anbara Salam Khalidi

These memoirs are a fascinating record of experiences witnessed by a pioneer feminist in Beirut whose name is rightly synonymous with the feminist, social and literary renaissance of the Arab East. ... From now on [neither] the history of Beirut in the modern period nor the history of the modern feminist movement in the Arab world [can] be written without reference to these very memoirs. -- Kamal Salibi, prominent Lebanese historian and former Professor of History at the American University of Beirut Anbara Salam Khalidi was a truly exceptional woman. Her book stands witness to a momentous period [of history]; throughout, she was in the vanguard of reform, active at key turning points of the turbulent twentieth century. ... These memoirs have rightly become a classic with the Arabic public, and now can at last reach Anglophone readers. The book offers us unparalleled insight; her story sharpens the sense that the freedoms that some of us are fortunate to enjoy were hard-won by forebears like Anbara. -- Marina Warner, from the foreword