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Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems
A vital fusion of memory and feminist thought finds the bestselling author of "Beyond the Veil" provocatively sifting through her experiences as a liberated Moroccan woman faced with the unexpected encroachments of Western culture.


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Title of ebook: Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems
ISBN: 9780743422536
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Publisher: Washington Square Press
Pages: 240
Published: 07-2001
Released online for download: 07-01-2001
Author of eBook: Mernissi, Fatima

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Chapter One


The Tale of the Lady with the Feather Dress


If by chance you were to meet me at the Casablanca airport or on a boat sailing from Tangiers, you would think me self-confident, but I am not. Even now, at my age, I am frightened when crossing borders because I am afraid of failing to understand strangers. "To travel is the best way to learn and empower yourself," said Yasmina, my grandmother, who was illiterate and lived in a harem, a traditional household with locked gates that women were not supposed to open. "You must focus on the strangers you meet and try to understand them. The more you understand a stranger and the greater is your knowledge of yourself, the more power you will have." For Yasmina, the harem was a prison, a place women were forbidden to leave. So she glorified travel and regarded the opportunity to cross boundaries as a sacred privilege, the best way to shed powerlessness. And, indeed, rumors ran wild in Fez, the medieval city of my childhood, about trained Sufi masters who got extraordinary "flashes" (lawami') and expanded their knowledge exponentially, simply because ... read full excerpt from: Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems ebook



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