Background
Fedwa Malti-Douglas was born on January 12, 1946, in Beirut, Lebanon.
Les Patios Saint-Jacques, 4-14 Rue Ferrus, 75014 Paris, France
Fedwa studied at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris.
Ithaca, NY 14850, United States
In 1970, Fedwa recieved a Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University in Ithaca.
Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States
In 1973, Fedwa received a Master of Arts from the University of California in Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. in 1977.
Ithaca, NY 14850, United States
In 1970, Fedwa recieved a Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University in Ithaca.
Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States
In 1973, Fedwa received a Master of Arts from the University of California in Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. in 1977.
Les Patios Saint-Jacques, 4-14 Rue Ferrus, 75014 Paris, France
Fedwa studied at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris.
(Woman's voice and body are closely entwined in the Arabo-...)
Woman's voice and body are closely entwined in the Arabo-Islamic tradition, argues Fedwa Malti-Douglas in this pioneering book. Spanning the ninth through twentieth centuries and covering a wide range of texts--from courtly anecdote to mystical and philosophical treatises, from works of geography to autobiography--this study reveals how woman's access to literary speech has remained mediated through her body.
https://www.amazon.com/Womans-Body-Word-Discourse-Arabo-Islamic/dp/0691014884/?tag=2022091-20
1991
(Nawal El Saadawi's books are known for their powerful den...)
Nawal El Saadawi's books are known for their powerful denunciation of patriarchy in its many forms: social, political, and religious. Set in an insane asylum, The Innocence of the Devil is a complex and chilling novel that recasts the relationships of God and Satan, of good and evil. Intertwining the lives of two young women as they discover their sexual and emotional powers, Saadawi weaves a dreamlike narrative that reveals how the patriarchal structures of Christianity and Islam are strikingly similar: physical violation of women is not simply a social or political phenomenon, it is a religious one as well.
https://www.amazon.com/Innocence-Devil-Literature-Middle-East/dp/0520088891/?tag=2022091-20
1994
(An entertainingly satirical vision of today's academy, in...)
An entertainingly satirical vision of today's academy, in which a woman academic lands, with her cat, in a university, largely populated by males.
https://www.amazon.com/Hisland-Adventures-Ac-Ac-ademe-Margins-Literature/dp/0791436039/?tag=2022091-20
1997
(The Starr Report exposed the cultural tendencies, desires...)
The Starr Report exposed the cultural tendencies, desires, and taboos of Americans while it disrobed the most powerful man in the world.
https://www.amazon.com/Starr-Report-Disrobed-Fedwa-Malti-Douglas-ebook/dp/B01HX2X8GK/?tag=2022091-20
2000
(In Medicines of the Soul, the autobiographical writings o...)
In Medicines of the Soul, the autobiographical writings of three leading women in today's Islamic revival movement reveal dramatic stories of religious transformation. As interpreted by Fedwa Malti-Douglas, the autobiographies provide a powerful, groundbreaking portrayal of gender, religion, and discourses of the body in Arabo-Islamic culture. At the center of each story is a lively female Islamic spirituality that questions secular hierarchies while reaffirming patriarchal ones.
https://www.amazon.com/Medicines-Soul-Female-Geographies-Transnational/dp/0520215931/?tag=2022091-20
2001
(From rulers to uninvited guests, from women to thieves, f...)
From rulers to uninvited guests, from women to thieves, from dreams to names, from blindness to torture - in a series of ground-breaking studies, Power, Marginality, and the Body in Medieval Islam explores the multi-layered and complex textual universe of medieval Islam.
https://www.amazon.com/Marginality-Medieval-Variorum-Collected-Studies/dp/0860788555/?tag=2022091-20
2001
(The Arabian Nights commands a place in world literature u...)
The Arabian Nights commands a place in world literature unrivaled by any other fictional work of "Oriental" provenance. Bringing together Indian, Iranian, and Arabic tradition, this collection of tales became popular in the Western world during the eighteenth century and has since exerted a profound influence on theater, opera, music, painting, architecture, and literature.
https://www.amazon.com/Arabian-Nights-Reader-Fairy-Tale-Studies/dp/0814332595/?tag=2022091-20
2006
(Bagdad has fallen. Saddam Hussein is in prison. These are...)
Bagdad has fallen. Saddam Hussein is in prison. These are the reputed secret conversations between the American president and the imprisoned Iraqi dictator.
https://www.amazon.com/Bush-Saddam-Tapes-Secret-Iraq-Archives/dp/0595521053/?tag=2022091-20
2008
(Sex, politics, and the law characterized the Clinton era,...)
Sex, politics, and the law characterized the Clinton era, which began with the emergence of Bill Clinton as a presidential candidate with a train of sex scandals and ended with the attacks of September 11, 2001. The Monica Lewinsky affair was the climax of the phenomenon, and the resulting scandal had far-reaching effects. Politics became the language and the means for battles over sex.
https://www.amazon.com/Partisan-Sex-Politics-Concepts-Political/dp/143310542X/?tag=2022091-20
2009
(In both scholarly and popular journals, Islam has been de...)
In both scholarly and popular journals, Islam has been described as homogeneous, monolithic, and purposeful, with an ideology determined to overthrow or undermine Western political institutions and democratic systems. In particular, Arab Muslims, who constitute just 20 percent of the one billion Muslims worldwide, have received special attention as putative authoritarians and potential terrorists.
https://www.amazon.com/Taking-Mystery-Out-Islam-I-ebook/dp/B005QD3JEK/?tag=2022091-20
2011
https://www.amazon.com/Speaking-Tongues-Transactions-Vol-Part/dp/1606180649/?tag=2022091-20
2016
(The three-volume life-story of the Egyptian intellectual ...)
The three-volume life-story of the Egyptian intellectual Tahah Husayn (1889-1973) is a landmark in modern autobiography, in Arabic letters, and in the literature of blindness. This justly celebrated text, however, has never been subjected to the sustained literary analysis here presented by Fedwa Malti-Douglas.
https://www.amazon.com/Blindness-Autobiography-Al-Ayyam-Princeton-Library/dp/0691637636/?tag=2022091-20
2016
Fedwa Malti-Douglas was born on January 12, 1946, in Beirut, Lebanon.
In 1970, Fedwa recieved a Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University in Ithaca. In 1973, she received a Master of Arts from the University of California in Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. in 1977. She also studied at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris.
A former Chercheur at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, Fedwa Malti-Douglas was a faculty member at the Salzburg Seminar in Salzburg, Austria, a Resident Fellow at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center on Lake Como, as well as a Senior Fellow at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University. She was a lecturer at San Diego State University, and also was chosen by the Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences as the Annual Distinguished James H. Becker Alumna Lecturer in 1992-1993.
The recipient of numerous grants, she has served on various boards and visiting committees and was an elected officer of the Board of Directors of the American Council of Learned Societies. She was elected to the French Société Asiatique in 1975 and to the American Philosophical Society in 2004.
Currently, Dr. Malti-Douglas is serving as the Editor-in-Chief of a new four-volume Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender for MacMillian.
Professor Malti-Douglas is the author of nine books, co-author of three more, and editor or co-editor of four other volumes. Her book, Men, Women, and God(s), was chosen as a Centennial Book by the University of California Press. Her co-authored book (with A. Douglas), Arab Comic Strips, was chosen as a Reader’s Catalog Selection by The New York Review of Books‘ Reader’s Catalog. Professor Malti-Douglas was editor-in-chief of the four-volume Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender (2007). She has published over one-hundred articles and opinion pieces in the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune, among others, and has appeared on numerous radio and television shows to comment on law, politics, and terrorism. She also is a published novelist.
Among her many awards are the 1997 Kuwait Prize for Arts and Letters, the 1998 Distinguished Scholar Award from the Office for Women’s Affairs, and the 2000 Distinguished Faculty Research Lecture Award at Indiana. Malti-Douglas was awarded a National Humanities Medal in 2015.
(From rulers to uninvited guests, from women to thieves, f...)
2001(In both scholarly and popular journals, Islam has been de...)
2011(Sex, politics, and the law characterized the Clinton era,...)
2009(The three-volume life-story of the Egyptian intellectual ...)
2016(In Medicines of the Soul, the autobiographical writings o...)
2001(An entertainingly satirical vision of today's academy, in...)
1997(The Starr Report exposed the cultural tendencies, desires...)
2000(Nawal El Saadawi's books are known for their powerful den...)
1994(Woman's voice and body are closely entwined in the Arabo-...)
1991(The Arabian Nights commands a place in world literature u...)
2006(Bagdad has fallen. Saddam Hussein is in prison. These are...)
2008
