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EXCELLENT DAUGHTERS
The Secret Lives of Young Women Who Are Transforming the Arab World
In the Arab countries, girls and young women are living in the crucible as battles over the future of the region are, increasingly, being fought in the domain of women's rights. Only a generation ago, Moroccan feminist Fatima Mernissi wrote that, in the Middle East, an unmarried adolescent girl was a completely new idea where previously you had only a female child and a menstruating woman who had to be married off immediately so as to prevent dishonorable engagement in premarital sex. Today, young Arab women outnumber men in universities, and some are facing down tradition in order to delay marriage, and to pursue professional goals. Thousands of young women are attending Qur'anic schoolsand using the training to argue for greater rights from an Islamic perspective. And, during the Arab Spring, young women helped to lead antigovernment protests.
In 2004, Zoepf began working in Damascus as a stringer for the New York Times. Zoepf lived in Syria before its civil war, and she documents a complex society in the midst of soul-searching about its place in the world and about women's changing roles. In Lebanon, she documents a country whose women must balance extreme standards of self-presentation with Islamic codes of virtue. In the United Arab Emirates, Zoepf reports on a generation of Arab women who've found freedom in living independently. In Saudi Arabia she chronicles driving protests and women entering the retail industry for the first time. She reports from Egypt in the aftermath of Tahrir Square to examine the crucial role of women in the popular uprising.
Over ten tumultuous years in the Arab world, journalist Katherine Zoepf has been documenting the lives of the generation of Arab women who, until now, have been the great, untold story of the Middle East.
Katherine Zoepf lived in Syria and Lebanon from 2004 to 2007 while working as a stringer for The New York Times; she also worked in the Times's Baghdad bureau in 2008. She is a fellow in the Breadwinning and Caregiving Program at the New America Foundation. Her work has appeared in The New York Observer, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times Magazine, and The New Yorker, among other publications. She is a graduate of Princeton University and the London School of Economics.
In 2004, Zoepf began working in Damascus as a stringer for the New York Times. Zoepf lived in Syria before its civil war, and she documents a complex society in the midst of soul-searching about its place in the world and about women's changing roles. In Lebanon, she documents a country whose women must balance extreme standards of self-presentation with Islamic codes of virtue. In the United Arab Emirates, Zoepf reports on a generation of Arab women who've found freedom in living independently. In Saudi Arabia she chronicles driving protests and women entering the retail industry for the first time. She reports from Egypt in the aftermath of Tahrir Square to examine the crucial role of women in the popular uprising.
Over ten tumultuous years in the Arab world, journalist Katherine Zoepf has been documenting the lives of the generation of Arab women who, until now, have been the great, untold story of the Middle East.
Katherine Zoepf lived in Syria and Lebanon from 2004 to 2007 while working as a stringer for The New York Times; she also worked in the Times's Baghdad bureau in 2008. She is a fellow in the Breadwinning and Caregiving Program at the New America Foundation. Her work has appeared in The New York Observer, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times Magazine, and The New Yorker, among other publications. She is a graduate of Princeton University and the London School of Economics.
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Published 2016-01-01 by Penguin Press |