It
documents a process by which notions of the
self could be redefined against a Muslim "other"
and the way in which Arabia was constructed by
a colonial subject as a part of discourse about
"the Orient".
—The
Asian Age,January 2008
…Siobhan
Lambert-Hurley's introduction becomes
invaluable. Lambert-Hurley does an excellent
job of placing the Begum in her time and
explaining the circumstances within which
she was operating, and to whom her words
were addressed.
