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Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Muslims who explore sources of morality other than Islam are threatened with death, and Muslim women who escape the virgins' cage are branded whores. So asserts Hirsi Ali's meditation on Islam and the role of women, the rights of the individual, the roots of fanaticism, and Western policies toward Islamic countries and immigrant communities. This controversial book is a call to arms for the emancipation of women from religious and cultural oppression...
Publisher
Picador
Language
English
Description
In 2016, Mariam Khan read that David Cameron had linked the radicalization of Muslim men to the `traditional submissiveness' of Muslim women. Mariam felt pretty sure she didn't know a single Muslim woman who would describe herself that way. Why was she hearing about Muslim women from people who were neither Muslim, nor female? Years later the state of the national discourse has deteriorated even further, and Muslim women's voices are still pushed...
Author
Publisher
Zed Books
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Collects essays by Egyptian writer, psychiatrist, and activist Nawal El Saadawi in which she covers topics such as oppression of women due to modern interpretations of Islam; women's roles in African literature; post-colonial tourism; the fight against female genital mutilation; and other forms of inequity around the world.
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the 2019 Orange Book Prize, The Impatients is a powerful novel about three women living in Cameroon who have grown impatient with the unrelenting oppression-patriarchy, polygamy, and the perpetual cry for patience-that dominates their lives"--
Author
Publisher
North Loop Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"On a fateful evening in 1978, Chivvis Moore, living as a carpenter in California, stops by the house of an architect friend. "What if I wrote to Hassan Fathy?" Chivvis suggests, eager to meet the Egyptian author of the influential 'Architecture for the Poor.' Less than three months later, Chivvis arrives in Cairo knowing virtually nothing about the culture and religion of the predominantly Muslim Middle East. What begins as a trip to meet Hassan...
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