This article examines couple Anglophone autobiographies by Egyptian immigrants in the United States.

This article examines couple Anglophone autobiographies by Egyptian immigrants in the United States, Ihab Hassan's public of Egypt: Scenes and Arguments of an Autobiography (1986) and Leila Ahmed's A Border Passage: From Cairo to America--A Woman's Journey (1999) The couple texts are read as Egyptian negotiations of Arab-American identity in the U in the connected thought [i]or[/i] thoughts of modern Egyptian history and Western perceptions of Arabs, Islam, and Middle Eastern politics. The sum of two units texts display radically different strategies of negotiating identity that cast reproach divergent currents in American cultural politics in the next to the first half of the twentieth hundred ...