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The Open Door
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The Open Door

Latifa al-Zayyat

1960
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A girl's coming of age amid the fight for independence.

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An activist and scholar who wrote women's freedom as part of the nation's. The Open Door tied a girl's awakening to the national struggle and became a feminist classic whose colloquial voice challenged the canon.

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