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Beyond Veiled Clichés: The Real Lives of Arab Women
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Beyond Veiled Clichés: The Real Lives of Arab Women Paperback - 2017

by Amal Awad


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As someone who has a foot in both the Western and Arabic worlds, Amal set out to explore the lives of Arab women, in Australia and the Middle East, traveling to the region and interviewing more than 60 women about feminism, intimacy, love, sex and shame, trauma, war, religion, and culture. Beyond Veiled Clichs explores the similarities and differences experienced by these women in their daily lives--work, relationships, home and family life, friendships, the communities they live in, and more. Arab-Australian women are at the intersection--between Western ideals and Arab tradition. It can get messy, but there is also great beauty in the layers. In a time of racial tension and rising global fear around terrorism, there is a renewed fear of "the other." At its heart this fascinating booknormalizes people and their experiences. The breadth, variety, and beauty of what Amal has discovered will enthrall and surprise you.


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  • Title Beyond Veiled Clichés: The Real Lives of Arab Women
  • Author Amal Awad
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 304
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher RANDOM HOUSE AUSTRALIA
  • Date 2017
  • ISBN 9780143782612

About the author

Amal Awad is a Sydney-based writer, journalist, author, and public speaker. Amal is a regular contributor to SBS Life, and has written for ELLE, Frankie, Daily Life, Sheilas, and Junkie. Amal is also a casual producer for ABC Radio National. With her debut novel, Courting Samira, Amal was a semi-finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. She contributed to the anthology Coming of Age: Growing up Muslim in Australia, and is also the author of This Is How You Get Better.
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Sydney: Vintage / Penguin Random House, 2017. Paperback octavo, very good plus condition. 256 pp. The Australian journalist explores life from the perspective of Arab women, both in the West and the Arab world, interviewing more than 80 women. The popular belief that all Arab men are controlling does a complete disservice to women who have taken ownership of their lives and trajectories. She explores the similarities and differences experienced by Arab women (both Muslim and Christian) in both worlds in their daily lives - work, relationships, home and family life, friendships, the communities they live in, and more. As someone who has a foot in both the Western and Arabic worlds, and with cultural understanding to address important contemporary issues in both, Amal feels equipped to do this by comparing and connecting lives in both worlds. This book aims to normalise Arab women and their experiences, creating a more empathetic response to the perceived other.
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