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Professor Hanaa
Contributor(s): Bassiouney, Reem (Author)
ISBN: 1859642721     ISBN-13: 9781859642726
Publisher: Garnet Publishing
OUR PRICE:   $13.46  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: November 2011
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Women
Dewey: 823.92
Physical Information: 0.41" H x 5.55" W x 8.46" (0.55 lbs) 200 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
 
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On the eve of her fortieth birthday Egyptian academic, Professor Hanaa, finds herself alone and unloved. For twenty years she has battled with an impossible love for an unattainable colleague, and has become outcast in a society where family and friends mean everything. Her life is organized into endless routines, and her emotions are hidden behind a fa ade of stern, but joyless professionalism. The fa ade begins to crumble, however, when her birthday brings with it the realization that she is about to turn into an embittered, forty-year-old spinster. Never one to admit defeat, Hanaa determines she will lose her virginity before her birthday, and sets her sights on Khalid, her teaching assistant. An earnest, hardworking and devout young man, Khalid is an unlikely accomplice; however Hanaa's powers of persuasion know no bounds. What ensues is a lively, witty, often sly commentary on gender and power relationships in both academia and the Arab world - a 'campus' novel of a wholly different bent.