I am not that Woman in a burqa
A Palestinian novelist remembers the liberated, educated women of her life, and how their freedom has been, and is being, curtailed.
Khalifeh, Sahar
http://mondediplo.com/2015/09/15mewomen
Date Written: 2015-09-01
Publisher: Le Monde diplomatique
Year Published: 2015
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX22090
Palestinian novelist Sahar Khalifeh discusses growing up as a girl and woman in Arab culture, and how Arab women are represented in Western culture.
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From childhood I heard them say that girls -- of the family, the neighbourhood, and world -- were powerless, helpless, doomed by nature, and permanently weak. I inherited those prejudices. And yet a few months ago, my younger sister told me that I was the only member of the Khalifeh family (a tribe-sized family) whose name was in the Palestine Encyclopaedia: "not my father, not my brother, not my uncle with his ten miraculous boys, not any male in the family ... there was only you."
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