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'A very courageous and illuminating book about women in the Arab world. It opens our eyes, destroys our prejudices and is very entertaining.' Mario Vargas Llosa --Endorsement
'Sometimes, a revolution erupts when one person says, That - that is not me.A" Joumana Haddad is a revolutionary, this book is the manifesto. Read it or be left behind.' Rabih Alameddine --Endorsement
'Joumana Haddad breaks down the rigid taboo of the Silent Absent Woman. Scheherazade has to die to be able to speak her true self, to tell her own story: that is, to become a human being.' Elfriede Jelinek, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 2004 Joumana 'One of the most intelligent, talented and courageous young Arab poets and intellectuals today' Mahmoud Darwish '[Her poetry is ] breathtaking, one that goes to the extreme' Tahar Ben Jelloun 'The Carrie Bradshaw of Beirut' Sunday Telegraph 'Provocative and sensual' Huffington Post 'Beirut's body language pioneer' Washington Post --Endorsements
'Sometimes, a revolution erupts when one person says, That - that is not me.A" Joumana Haddad is a revolutionary, this book is the manifesto. Read it or be left behind.' Rabih Alameddine --Endorsement
'Joumana Haddad breaks down the rigid taboo of the Silent Absent Woman. Scheherazade has to die to be able to speak her true self, to tell her own story: that is, to become a human being.' Elfriede Jelinek, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 2004 Joumana 'One of the most intelligent, talented and courageous young Arab poets and intellectuals today' Mahmoud Darwish '[Her poetry is ] breathtaking, one that goes to the extreme' Tahar Ben Jelloun 'The Carrie Bradshaw of Beirut' Sunday Telegraph 'Provocative and sensual' Huffington Post 'Beirut's body language pioneer' Washington Post --Endorsements
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In this provocative book Joumana Haddad uses the format of the political pamphlet to describe the liberating impact of literature on her life. She tells of reading the Marquis de Sade at twelve, of her metamorphosis into an award-winning poet, and reflects upon how this has shaped her as an Arab woman, as a writer and as a magazine editor. Joumana challenges prevalent notions of identity and womanhood in the Middle East and speaks of how she came to create the Arab world's first erotic literary magazine, Jasad (Body), that has earned her both admiration and censure. Fiery and candid, I Killed Scheherazade is a provocative exploration of what it means to be an 'Arab woman' today.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Self-indulgent,
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This review is from: I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman (Paperback)
Joumana repeatedly tells us that she is an unusual Arab woman, a maverick within the restrictive Arab world that she herself decries, but the majority of her anger is on the West for hemming her into a stereotype. At only one point in the book did I feel a sense of enlightenment - page 135, when she writes of a defensive posture that Arab feminists take under Western criticism.
This felt like a self-indulgent rant.
2.0 out of 5 stars
a bit of a tirade,
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This review is from: I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman (Paperback)
Reading this book for me was probably as boring as it was cathartic for Joumana Haddad to write it. It probably did her a world of good to let off her frustration and anger, but as far as I'm concerned, I found little which was interesting or new.
The "post-partum" bit about how she killed Scheherazade was the only part which touched me.. and limiting herself to that would have got her point across without all the rest of her ranting.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Sexual Politics and the Arab Society,
This review is from: I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman (Paperback)
Joumana is blatantly honest and so right about so many things; it's amazing just to think how we need more people like her in the world everywhere, but especially in the Middle East.
Unfortunately, the place where this book needs to be published it is not published yet, so at the moment, it is preaching to the converted. The book should be published in Arabic, and allow Arabic nations to self-introspect the cultural future of their societies in general, and the role of women and sexual politics in particular. Social liberation and progress comes through and with the liberation of women's social status.
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