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Hind is granted a temporary reprieve from her impending marriage to
Abdulla, her cousin. Little does anyone suspect that the presence
of Sangita, her Indian roommate, may shake a carefully constructed
future. Torn between loyalties to Hind and a growing attraction to
Abdulla, Sangita must choose between friendship and a burgeoning
love. A modern quest for the right to pursue love and happiness,
even when it comes in an unconventional package, LOVE COMES LATER
explores similarities between the South Asian and Arab cultures
while exposing how cultural expectations affect both men and women.
Identities are tested and boundaries questioned against the
shifting backdrops of Doha, Qatar and London, England.
Haram in the Harem focuses on the differences in nationalist
discourse regarding women and the way female writers conceptualized
the experience of women in three contexts: the middle-class Muslim
reform movement, the Algerian Revolution, and the Partition of
India. During each of these periods the subject of women, their
behavior, bodies, and dress were discussed by male scholars,
politicians, and revolutionaries. The resonating theme amongst
these disparate events is that women were believed to be best
protected when they were ensconced within their homes and governed
by their families, particularly male authority, whether they were
fathers, brothers, or husbands. The threat to national identity was
often linked to the preservation of womanly purity. Yet for the
writers of this study, Ismat Chughtai (1915-1991), Assia Djebar
(1936-), and Khadija Mastur (1927-1982), the danger to women was
not in the public sphere but embedded within a domestic hierarchy
enforced by male privilege. In their fictional texts, each writer
shows how women resist, subvert, and challenge the normative
behaviors prescribed in masculine discourse. In their writings they
highlight the different ways women negotiated private spaces
between intersecting masculine hegemonies of power including
colonialism and native patriarchy. They demonstrate distinct
literary viewpoints of nation, home, and women's experiences at
particular historical moments. The choice of these various texts
reveals how fiction provided a safe space for female writers to
contest traditional systems of power. Bringing into focus the
voices and experiences of women - who existed as limited cultural
icons in the nationalist discourse - is a common theme throughout
the selected stories. This book showcases the fluidity of
literature as a response to the intersections of gender, race, and
nation.
The globalization of American style higher education is a field of
study that is undergoing a significant phase with the current
expansion of American branch campuses and curricula around the
world. This volume contributes to the scholarship on the project of
implementing and expanding U.S. influenced curricula in the Middle
East and Asia. Many of the branch campus projects are only a few
decades old making this a liminal moment in the translation and
development of higher education worldwide that needs to be
captured. What are the challenges, opportunities, and
considerations faculty encounter in classrooms in the Middle East,
Eastern Europe and Asia? How do faculty translate western higher
educational principles in new contexts? Projects like the
multiversity international branch campuses of Education City, in
Doha, Qatar, demonstrate the interest of foreign governments in
western education and training. Other collaborations, like the Yale
National University of Singapore College, demonstrate a
nationalistic approach, where the nation's premiere university
maintains as high a profile as the invited collaborator. Such a
wide range in mission and matriculation of students deserves
further study. We open the conversation about the complex teaching
and learning environment of American style education in a global
context. Contributions include case studies, pedagogical
interventions, and reflections. This volume features chapters by
faculty teaching at international branch campuses (IBCs) or
institutions using western curricula, such as the worldwide,
privatized American University system
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