Leila Ahmed, A Border Passage: From Cairo to America – A Woman's Journey. 1999- 2000 New York: Penguin Putnam Inc. In regard to Leila Ahmed's latest novel, the truth is definitely in the title. A border passage is an intimate account of life, and the journey one embarks on when one truly wishes to ‘live life.’ Ahmed writes about ‘border passages,’ passages from girlhood to womanhood, citizenship to immigrant, from Arab nationalism to Western feminism, and perhaps …showed first 75 words of 2423 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2423 total…Passage, is a very intimate account of immensely complicated events and theories. She delves into the Suez Crisis and Nasser’s Arab Nationalism, what it means to be Arab and when exactly Egyptians became Arab, and finally the Harem reexamined in regard to “aural” Islam. Ahmed has a great deal to say and she says it beautifully. The ideas are extremely complex and yet Ahmed reveals them in a logical and understandable manner. -------------- ---------