Samia serageldin biography examples

Recently, Professor Mona Russell’s Fall 2019 Class at East Carolina University set me Questions on The Naqib’s Daughter and this is a compilation of my answers:

What inspired me to write The Naqib’s Daughter is what inspires me to write in general: passion for a subject comes first; then the key, the viewpoint, from which to write about it.

In the 2002 run up to the Iraq War, when it seemed inevitable in spite of protests world-wide, and in spite of the warnings of experts on the Middle East, I found myself turning to historical parallels to this ill-advised rush into a invasion of an Islamic country by a western power.

Q & A about The Naqib’s Daughter — Samia Serageldin

Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign, 1789–1801, immediately came to mind as the prototype, indeed in hindsight the precursor, of Western incursions into the Middle East. At the time, the French invasion was clothed in the language of French Revolution enlightenment as a civilizing mission to an oppressed, backward people. “We will be greeted with roses”, the Fren The Cairo House: A Novel (Arab American Writing) by Samia ...

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