A groundbreaking look at sexual attitudes and behaviours in the Arab world, against the backdrop of this decade's popular uprisings. Highly personal, and often humorous.[...]
If you really want to know a people, start by looking inside their bedrooms.
As political change sweeps the streets and squares, the parliaments and presidential palaces of the Arab world, Shereen El Feki has been looking at an upheaval a little closer to home--in the sexual lives of men and wom[...]
A "Kirkus Reviews" Best Book of the Year
As the "Arab Spring" and its aftermath sweep streets and squares, parliaments and presidential palaces of the Middle East, Shereen El Feki--an award-winning Canadian-Egyptian journalist--has been looking at unrest a little closer to home: in the sexual li[...]
Sex is entwined in religion and tradition, politics and economics, gender and generations, so it makes the perfect lens for examining the region's complex social landscape. This title is an account of one woman's journey to better understand Arab society at its most intimate, and in the process, bet[...]