I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman. Joumana Haddad
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ISBN: 9780863564277 | 150 pages | 4 Mb
- I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman
- Joumana Haddad
- Page: 150
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- ISBN: 9780863564277
- Publisher: Saqi Books
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Overview
Joumana Haddad is angry. She finds the West’s portrayal of Arab women appalling and the image projected by many Middle Eastern women infuriating. “Being an Arab today means you need to be a hypocrite,” Haddad boldly states. “We constantly and obsessively think about sex but dare not talk about it.” In I Killed Scheherazade, Haddad challenges prevalent notions of Arab womanhood and, in the process, shatters the centuries-old stereotype of Scheherazade, the virgin heroine of The Arabian Nights who won the king’s ...