| Chapter 1: | In Search of Identity—the History, Politics, and Emotions of Becoming Arab in Leila Ahmed’s A Border Passage: From Cairo to America—A Woman’s Journey |
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Chapter 1
In Search of Identity—the History, Politics, and Emotions of Becoming Arab in Leila Ahmed’s A Border Passage: From Cairo to America—A Woman’s Journey
The following pages recount a personal odyssey through the politics, emotions, and history of our becoming Arab. For no matter how carefully I examined my memories and feelings, they remained opaque until I took this journey into history and into the history of the world of my childhood. These pages both describe the information that I discovered and pieced together—some of it surprising and even shocking to me—and trace the process and voyage of discovery itself and my new understandings of my past. (246)