The Stillborn: Notebooks of a Woman from the Student-Movement Generation in Egypt

Arwa Salih

ISBN 10: 0857424831 / ISBN 13: 9780857424839

Published by Seagull Books London Ltd, 2018

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2018. Hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Stillborn: Notebooks of a Woman from the Student-Movement Generation in Egypt
• Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0857424831
• ISBN 13: 9780857424839
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Arwa Salih was a member of the political bureau of the Egyptian Communist Workers Party, which was founded in the wake of the Arab–Israeli War and the Egyptian student movement of the early 1970s. Written more than a decade after Salih quit the party and left political life—and published shortly after she committed suicide—the book offers a poignant look at, and reckoning with, the Marxism of her generation and the role of militant intellectuals in the tragic failure of both the national liberation project and the communist project in Egypt. The powerful critique in The Stillborn speaks not only to and about Salih’s own generation of left activists but also to broader, still salient dilemmas of revolutionary politics throughout the developing world in the postcolonial era.
 

About the Author

Arwa Salih (1953–97) was a scholar who was active in Egyptian revolutionary politics in the 1970s and ’80s. Samah Selim is a scholar and translator at Rutgers University.