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Introduction and selection copyright © 2019 by Zahra Hankir
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“What Normal?” by Hwaida Saad, “Words, Not Weapons” by Shamael Elnoor, and “Between the Explosions” by Asmaa al-Ghoul are translated by Mariam Antar. Translation copyright © 2019 by Mariam Antar.
Excerpt on this page from “Dedication” from Bilingual Blues by Gustavo Pérez Firmat (Bilingual Press, 1995). © Gustavo Pérez Firmat. Used with permission.
Photograph on this page by Ellen Emmerentze Thommessen Jervell. Used with permission.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Names: Hankir, Zahra, editor. | Amanpour, Christiane, writer of foreword.
Title: Our women on the ground : essays by Arab women reporting from the Arab world / edited by Zahra Hankir ; foreword by Christiane Amanpour.
Description: New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018052511 (print) | LCCN 2019012777 (ebook) | ISBN 9780143133414 (paperback) | ISBN 9780525505204 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Women journalists—Arab countries—Biography. | Reporters and reporting—Arab countries. | Women in journalism— Arab countries. | Women in the mass media industry—Arab countries. | Women—Arab countries—Social conditions.
Classification: LCC P94.5.W652 (ebook) | LCC P94.5.W652 A737 2019 (print) | DDC 070.4082—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018052511
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