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Title: Robust, diverse look at lives of women in Arab countries
Review: Although the backgrounds of the women in these stories are diverse, from an educated Europeanized Arab woman, modern and not-so-modern women living in Arab countries, and a European refugee into Arab lands, they share similar concerns: alientation, fear of being consumed by marriage and/or men, the conflict between independence (the West) and security (the Mid East/Islamic).The stories are neither happy nor sad, but thoughtful and deep, with more a sense of melancholy hanging over them. The author's narrative style is mostly straightforward, and frequently told from a female perspective. Men are not the bogeyman, but often seemed caught in their own constructed lives as well.
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