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    The View from Garden City: A Novel
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    The View from Garden City: A Novel

    By Carolyn Baugh

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    Author Carolyn Baugh tells the moving story of a young American student living in the Garden City district of Cairo. Having come to study Arabic, she learns far more from the Egyptian women, young and old, she meets within the swirl and tumult of Garden City. Living, loving, and flourishing amid the fierce inflexibility of tradition, these women reveal a fascinating world of arranged marriages, secret romances, and the often turbulent bonds between four generations of Arab mothers and daughters.

    Meet the women of Garden City:

    Huda, who waited desperately for the man she loved until she could wait no longer
    Karima, who found her husband in a collapsing post-war world
    Afkar, who paid a dreadful price for her freedom
    Selwa, who suffered through the deaths of her children
    Yusriyya, who left her native village for a new life in the city
    Samira, who loved a man who was not hers

    Rich with the sights and sounds of modern Egypt, The View from Garden City lifts the veil of privacy to explore the stunning inner strength of women torn between their dreams for the future and the sacrifices women must make in a world of harsh realities.



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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateMar 1, 2011
    ISBN9781429984195
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    The View from Garden City: A Novel
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    Carolyn Baugh

    Dr. Carolyn Baugh holds both a Master's (2008) and a Doctorate (2011) from the University of Pennsylvania in Arabic and Islamic Studies. She is an Assistant Professor of History at Gannon University in Erie, Pennsylvania, where she teaches courses in Middle East and world history and also directs the Women's Studies Program. Her graduate research focused on minor marriage in early Islamic law, while her translation work includes the Sufi treatise of the celebrated 14th century jurist and scholar Ibn Khaldun. Dr. Baugh co-directs the Erie Voices refugee oral history project geared at collecting the stories of Erie's diverse refugee community for purposes of increasing tolerance and understanding between cultures. She is faculty advisor for Students United against Human Trafficking and the Muslim Students Association. She is a failed concert pianist, a psychotic soccer mom to two indomitable girls, and the only one in the house who feeds Oreo the Cat. In addition to various scholarly articles, she is the author of The View from Garden City.

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    • 4/5
      This is another book on the lives of Muslim women. I have read a few but I liked the way this story was told.It tells the story through the eyes of a young American student living in the Garden City district of Cairo. She has come to learn Arabic but she learns much more from the Egyptian women she meets, first Huda and her mother and grandmother and secondly women in the apartment block where she lives. She learns of inflexible traditons, of arranged marriages, of secret romances that last a lifetime, and of the bonds within families between mothers and daughters and fathers and daughters. The characters were interesting, appealing, you could feel empathy for their situations and I liked the way the story was written. Worth a read.