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Excellent Daughters
- The Secret Lives of Young Women Who Are Transforming the Arab World
- By: Katherine Zoepf
- Narrated by: Katherine Zoepf
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 50
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 53
For more than a decade, Katherine Zoepf has lived in or traveled throughout the Arab world, reporting on the lives of women, whose role in the region has never been more in flux. Only a generation ago, female adolescence as we know it in the West did not exist in the Middle East. There were only children and married women. Today, young Arab women outnumber men in universities, and a few are beginning to face down religious and social tradition in order to live independently, to delay marriage, and to pursue professional goals.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best book on Middle East written this decade
- By Zuzana B on 07-02-17
- Excellent Daughters
- The Secret Lives of Young Women Who Are Transforming the Arab World
- By: Katherine Zoepf
- Narrated by: Katherine Zoepf
Best book on Middle East written this decade
Reviewed: 07-02-17
If you could sum up Excellent Daughters in three words, what would they be?
Accurate portrayal of Arab culture - finally
What other book might you compare Excellent Daughters to and why?
Not sure
Have you listened to any of Katherine Zoepf’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
This is the first
What’s the most interesting tidbit you’ve picked up from this book?
The notion and importance of honor in the society
Any additional comments?
No
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