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i. My Harem Frontiers
2. Scheherazade, the King, and the Words
3. The French Harem
4. Yasmina's First Co-Wife
5. Chama and the Caliph
6. Tamou's Horse
7. The Harem Within
8. Aquatic Dishwashing
9. Moonlit Nights of Laughter
io. The Men's Salon
ri. World War II: View from the Courtyard
12. Asmahan, the Singing Princess
13. The Harem Goes to the Movies
14. Egyptian Feminists Visit the Terrace
15. Princess Budur's Fate
16. The Forbidden Terrace
17. Mina, the Rootless
18. American Cigarettes
1g. Mustaches and Breasts
20. The Silent Dream of Wings and Flights
21. Skin Politics: Eggs, Dates, and Other Beauty Secrets
22. Henna, Clay, and Men's Stares
One of my weekly pleasures was to admire Samir as he staged his mutinies against the grownups, and I
on the second floor, the seventh child of his mother. I was born one hour later in our salon downsta
Scheherazade's marriage to the King, she said, was not a normal one at all. It had taken place under
Scheherazade's father, who loved her dearly, opposed such a plan, and tried to convince her that she
According to Muslim law, a woman cannot rule a country, although that had happened a few centuries a
Sometimes, she said that to be stuck in a harem simply meant that a woman had lost her freedom of mo
rocco that I, her little granddaughter, was going to step into. "Morocco has changed quickly, little
The race was organized all over the world, and the Byzantines won the first round.'
nastiest of all the Romans, lived close to the Arabs in the Eastern Mediterranean, where they never
During storytelling night, all the co-wives would gather in Yaya's room, and tea trays would be brou
On picnic day, everyone woke up at dawn and buzzed around the courtyard as if it were a religious fe
concerned, its origin was dubious. "There's no record of it in the Hadith," she said, "It might even
We would arrive on the farm in mid-morning, equipped with dozens of carpets and light sofas and khan
With the exception of Lalla Thor, who was a city woman with very white, lifeless skin, most of the c
ants were its threat.'-
Zin worked very hard at becoming the ideal modern nationalist, that is, one who possessed a vast kno
The fifth and largest key group in the city was that of the craftsmen, who had produced practically
What I could not understand was, what were the Jews doing in the country of the Allemane? How did th
Caliph Harun badly needed to relax, because he spent most of his days fighting. During his reign, th
nationalists' wives, and sang with them until late in the night. When she finally came home exhauste
of Chama: Aisha Taymour, Zaynab Fawwaz, and Huda Sha`raoui.1
literary figure in Beirut and Cairo intellectual circles, through a combination of strategically pla
British occupation and end her own traditional seclusion and confinement. She tossed away her veil w
caftan, it becomes a wonderful work of art."2
their tents; and they ate and drank and rested, and the Princess Budur lay down to sleep.3
cealed my case only that Allah may reunite me with my beloved Qamar al-Zaman."5
placed in big earthen jars, and left out on the terrace to be cured by the sun. From time to time, A
Despite all the excitement surrounding the annual ceremony at Sidi Belal's house, most of the time M
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