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I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman
I Killed Scheherazade Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman Author:Joumana Haddad Joumana Haddad is angry. She finds the West's portrayal of Arab women appalling. And the image projected by many Middle Eastern women can be infuriating as well. "Being an Arab today means you need to be a hypocrite," Haddad boldly states in I Killed Scheherazade. And "We constantly and obsessively think about sex, but dare not talk about it. We... more » rid ourselves of one so-called abomination with one hand, then practice intellectual debauchery, which is much worse, with the other." In I Killed Scheherazade Haddad challenges prevalent notions of identity and womanhood in the Middle East and speaks of her own intellectual development and the liberating effect of literature on her life, ultimately arguing that every woman has not only the right but the duty to ignore social, political, and sexual expectations and be true to herself. Fiery and candid, this is a provocative exploration of what it means to be an Arab woman today that will enlighten and inform a new international feminism.« less