A critical reading of Leila Ahmed's a border passage : from Cairo to America : a woman's journey in the light of bildungsroman

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This paper analyses A Border Passage: From Cairo to America—A Woman's Journey written by the reputable Egyptian Professor of Women Studies in religion at Harvard University: Leila Ahmed (1940---).

Ahmed gives her narration the form of a memoir.

A Border Passage: From Cairo to America-- A Woman's Journey tells of her long and safe travel from her eastern culture to a more surpassing, and superior western culture.

She begins her personal journey paying farewell as an immigrant who has lost intimacy with homeland and readily gained knowledge of both the language and culture contrary to her own.

She embarks upon her journey with a definite resolution of not returning back and droven by ceaseless ambition, and endless keen on learning.

Amidst her life and study in America, Ahmed reconsiders all her preconceived judgment concerning relation and appreciation of her country.