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Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt

By L. L. Wynn

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About the book

Cairo is a city obsessed with honor and respectability-and love affairs. Sara, a working-class woman, has an affair with a married man and becomes pregnant, only to be abandoned by him; Ayah and Zeid, a respectably engaged couple, argue over whether Ayah's friend is a prostitute or a virgin; Malak, a European belly dancer who sometimes gets paid for sex, wants to be loved by a man who won't treat her like a whore just because she's a dancer; and Alia, a Christian banker who left her abusive husb...Show more

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9781477317044

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University of Texas Press

Published year

2018

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1

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Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt

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Hardcover

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