How Long to Read The Open Door
By Latifa Al-Zayyat
How Long Does it Take to Read The Open Door?
It takes the average reader 6 hours and 42 minutes to read The Open Door by Latifa Al-Zayyat
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Description
The Open Door is a landmark of women's writing in Arabic. Published in 1960, it was very bold for its time in exploring a middle-class Egyptian girl's coming of sexual and political age, in the context of the Egyptian nationalist movement preceding the 1952 revolution. The novel traces the pressures on young women and young men of that time and class as they seek to free themselves of family control and social expectations. Young Layla and her brother become involved in the student activism of the 1940s and early 1950s and in the popular resistance to continued imperialist rule; the story culminates in the 1956 Suez Crisis, when Gamal Abd al-Nasser's nationalization of the Canal led to a British, French, and Israeli invasion. Not only daring in her themes, Latifa al-Zayyat was also bold in her use of colloquial Arabic, and the novel contains some of the liveliest dialogue in modern Arabic literature. "Not only a great novel, but a literary landmark that shaped our consciousness." Abdel Moneim Tallima "A great anticolonialist work in a feminist key." Ferial Ghazoul "Latifa al-Zayyat greatly helped all of us Egyptian writers in our early writing careers." Naguib Mahfouz
How long is The Open Door?
The Open Door by Latifa Al-Zayyat is 395 pages long, and a total of 100,725 words.
This makes it 133% the length of the average book. It also has 123% more words than the average book.
How Long Does it Take to Read The Open Door Aloud?
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 10 minutes to read The Open Door aloud.
What Reading Level is The Open Door?
The Open Door is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.
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