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Consisting of sixty short stories by forty women writers from across the Arab world, this collection opens numerous windows onto Arab culture and society and offers keen sights into what Arab women feel and think. The stories deal not only with feminist issues but also with topics of a social, cultural, and political nature. Different styles and modes of writing are represented, along with a diversity of techniques and creative approaches, and the authors present many points of view and various ways of solving problems and confronting situations in everyday life. Lively, outspoken, and provocative, these stories are essential reading for anyone interested in the Arab world.
About the author
Dalya Cohen-Mor is a Middle East scholar and an award-winning author. Her books include A Matter of Fate: The Concept of Fate in the Arab World as Reflected in Modern Arabic Literature; Mothers and Daughters in Arab Women's Literature: The Family Frontier; Fathers and Sons in the Arab Middle East; and Arab Women Writers: An Anthology of Short Stories, also published by SUNY Press.Dalya Cohen-Mor is a Middle East scholar and an award-winning author. Her books include A Matter of Fate: The Concept of Fate in the Arab World as Reflected in Modern Arabic Literature; Mothers and Daughters in Arab Women's Literature: The Family Frontier; Fathers and Sons in the Arab Middle East; and Arab Women Writers: An Anthology of Short Stories, also published by SUNY Press.
