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Beyond Veiled Clichés

Beyond Veiled Clichés

The Real Lives of Arab Women

by Amal Awad
Paperback
Publication Date: 29/05/2017

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Amal Awad spoke with women in the Arab world and Arab Australian women to discover what their lives are really like.

The breadth, variety and beauty of what she discovered will surprise you.

Magnificent. Surprising. Illuminating. Australia needs this book. NIKKI GEMMELL

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, travelling to the region and interviewing more than sixty women about feminism, intimacy, love, sex and shame, trauma, war, religion and culture.

Beyond Veiled Clichés 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 book normalises people and their experiences. The breadth, variety and beauty of what Amal has discovered will enthral and surprise you.

ISBN:
9780143782612
9780143782612
Category:
Islamic & Arabic philosophy
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
29-05-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Random House Australia
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
304
Dimensions (mm):
233x154x26mm
Weight:
0.36kg
Amal Awad

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 (Allen & Unwin, 2014), and her second novel, This Is How You Get Better, was published in March 2015.

Amal’s fourth book is called Beyond Veiled Clichés: The Real Lives of Arab Women, a work of non-fiction that explores the lives of Arab women both in Australia and in the Arab world.

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