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050 00 E161.5|b.A43 2011 
245 00 America in an Arab mirror :|bimages of America in Arabic 
       travel literature, 1668 to 9/11 and beyond /|cedited by 
       Kamal Abdel-Malek and Mouna El Kahla. 
250    1st Palgrave Macmillan pbk. ed. 
260    New York :|bPalgrave Macmillan,|c2011. 
300    xviii, 222 p. ;|c22 cm. 
500    Includes index. 
505 8  Machine generated contents note: -- America in the Eyes of
       a Nineteenth-Century Arab * A Stranger in the West: The 
       Trip of Mikhail Asad Rustum to America, 1885-1894--Mikhail
       Asad Rustum * The Making of an Image: America as the 
       Unchanged Other, America as the Seductive Female * The 
       America I Have Seen--Sayyid Qutb * An American Immigrant--
       Ahmad Mustafa * A Love Tour--Mahmud Awad * New York 80--
       Yusuf Idris * America: The Dream and the Reality * America
       in the Eyes of an Easterner, Or Eight Years in the U.S.--
       Philip K. Hitti * Embers and Ashes: Memoirs of an Arab 
       Intellectual--Hisham Sharabi * Land of Magic--Shafiq Jabri
       * My Days in America--Zaki Najib Mahmud * America [Top 
       Secret]--Ahmad Haridi * The Washington Memoirs--Yusuf al-
       Hasan * America in the Eyes of Arab Women Travelers * 
       America and I--Jadhibiyya Sidqi * An Egyptian Girl in 
       America--Karima Kamal * The Trip: The Days of an Egyptian 
       Female Student in America--Radwa Ashur * America's Other 
       Face--Layla Abu Zayd * America...The Way It Is--Hala 
       Sarhan * Satirical Views on America * Cheerful America of 
       the Past--Mustafa Amin * My Story with Ivana Trump--Ali 
       Salim * America, You Cheeky Devil--Mahmud al-Saadani * The
       Sabeel--Kamal Abdel-Malek. 
520    "This distinguished anthology presents for the first time 
       in English travel essays by Arabic writers who have 
       visited America in the second half of the century. The 
       view of America which emerges from these accounts is at 
       once fascinating and illuminating, but never monolithic. 
       The writers hail from a variety of viewpoints, regions, 
       and backgrounds, so their descriptions of America 
       differently engage and revise Arab pre-conceptions of 
       Americans and the West. The country figures as everything 
       from the unchanging Other, the very antithesis of the Arab
       self, to the seductive female, to the Other who is both 
       praiseworthy and reprehensible"--|cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Arabs|xTravel|zUnited States|xHistory|y20th century 
650  0 Arab Americans|xAttitudes 
650  0 Arab Americans|vBiography 
650  0 Travelers' writings, Arabic|vTranslations into English 
651  0 United States|xDescription and travel 
651  0 United States|xSocial life and customs|y20th century 
651  0 United States|xForeign public opinion, Arab 
700 1  Abdel-Malek, Kamal 
700 1  El Kahla, Mouna