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Summary: sublte way to touch current issues
Review: Bakr touches on many issues that face women and others in modern Egyptian society (also Arab). By using animals, women from different social classes and family situations she shows how women react adn try to change hard situations. These stories were very empowering and although her anger for the status-quo for women and other disadvantaged people is hidden, one can see through the women's triumphs that there is hope out there for these women. She stressed women's solidarity to combat all pressing issues along with education, perserverance, and communication between people. I was hooked on all stories. She is able to write a 10 page story and develop characters and plots that makes you want the story to go on and on. The last novella hidden in the book is a bit too much for the book of stories. The issues are more complex and hard to fit with the other stories, but just as good.
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Summary: Condition of women in Egypt.
Review: Stories about the degradation of the environmenment (concrete instead of green), the superficiality of TV, and most of all about the appalling condition of women: circumcision, repudiation, forced marriages, terrorization of daughters and wives, corrupt police, poverty.
Subtle but critical texts about the government and religion, but the criticism is written between the lines or is indirect: bread is expensive, hold-up of bus with a meagre loot, policeman pays woman to go to prison to prove that he does his job well...
A worth-while read.
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