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Excellent Daughters
Excellent Daughters: The Secret Lives of Young Women Who Are Transforming the Arab World | Katherine Zoepf
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For more than a decade, Katherine Zoepf has lived in or traveled throughout the Arab world, reporting on the lives of women, whose role in the region has never been more in flux. Only a generation ago, female adolescence as we know it in the West did not exist in the Middle East. There were only children and married women. Today, young Arab women outnumber men in universities, and a few are beginning to face down religious and social tradition in order to live independently, to delay marriage, and to pursue professional goals. Hundreds of thousands of devout girls and women are attending Quranic schoolsand using the training to argue for greater rights and freedoms from an Islamic perspective. And, in 2011, young women helped to lead antigovernment protests in the Arab Spring. But their voices have not been heard. Their stories have not been told. In Syria, before its civil war, she documents a complex society in the midst of soul searching about its place in the world and about the role of women. In Lebanon, she documents a country that on the surface is freer than other Arab nations but whose women must balance extreme standards of self-presentation with Islamic codes of virtue. In Abu Dhabi, Zoepf reports on a generation of Arab women whove found freedom in work outside the home. In Saudi Arabia she chronicles driving protests and women entering the retail industry for the first time. In the aftermath of Tahrir Square, she examines the crucial role of women in Egypt's popular uprising. Deeply informed, heartfelt, and urgent, Excellent Daughters brings us a new understanding of the changing Arab societiesfrom 9/11 to Tahrir Square to the rise of ISISand gives voice to the remarkable women at the forefront of this change. From the Hardcover edition.
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Blueberry
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I spent the afternoon with @NataliePatalie at B&N. We always play this game in bookstores "What books have you read from this table or shelf". She also did my nails for me while we were there.

TheLibrarian I do that game too with my husband but just gives me “are you serious???” kind of look. 😂 5y
Blueberry @TheLibrarian My husbands answer would be '0'. 5y
TheLibrarian @Blueberry Same with mine! I also like to point out which books I own and my husband always guesses all of them 5y
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Smrloomis
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This was just added to my library‘s collection. Looks interesting and is written by an American journalist who lived in Syria and Baghdad. Anyone else read this? @megt ?

megt I did read this last year, but I have to admit I have only vague memories of it. I think parts of it were strongly written and engaging, but other parts fell flat. After finishing, I do remember wishing that I had read an #ownvoices account instead of an American‘s observations. 6y
Smrloomis @megt thanks, I don‘t think I am going to bump this up then. At least for me, not really remembering much of something is pretty telling. It‘s a good idea but I hadn‘t heard of it all before, which is sometimes also an indicator of how good it turned out to be. 6y
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BarbaraBB
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Me reading, she reading. Love it! ♥️♥️

SharonGoforth That's awesome!! 7y
LeahBergen Love it! 💕 7y
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Lola
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I don't have any recent pictures of my dear daughters together (must fix that!) so this is a #tbt to a couple of years ago. #SweetChildOMine #LyricalApril @Cinfhen

Redjewel_7734 Wonderful girls! 7y
Lola @Redjewel_7734 Thanks! ❤️ 7y
Cinfhen Such happy, beautiful smiling faces 😃💜😃and trust me, I have very few recent pics of my 3 together 😡they are ugh when it comes to pics ☹️ 7y
Lola @Cinfhen Thanks! 😍My oldest (dark hair on the right) just informed me that going forward, any picture of her that I post has to be of her at age 12 or younger 😂😂😂 7y
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megt
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Read this line from the prologue a few days ago and it just keeps coming back to me.