Excellent Daughters : The Secret Lives of Young Women Who Are Transforming the Arab World - Hardcover

Katherine Zoepf

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594203881 ISBN 13: 9781594203886

Publisher: Penguin Press, 2016

Synopsis

For more than a decade, Katherine Zoepf has lived in or travelled throughout the Arab world, reporting on the lives of women, whose role in the region has never been more in flux. Today, 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. Deeply informed, heartfelt and urgent, Excellent Daughters brings us a new understanding of changing Arab societies and gives voice to the remarkable women at the forefront of this change.

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Review:

"In short if you're interested in the Arab world, in feminism or just in superb journalism, Excellent Daughters is highly recommended." --Anna James, Books Editor at The Bookseller

"Zoepf's knowledge of Arabic, her open and inquisitive mind, her combination of lucidity and empathy, and perhaps even her own background as a lapsed Jehovah's Witness allow her to understand these women's lives on their own terms without losing her footing either in their world or in ours." --New York Times

About the Author:

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. Since 2010, she has been a fellow 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1594203881
• ISBN 13: 9781594203886
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272