Fiery and candid; a provocative and courageous exploration of what it means to be an Arab woman today.

I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman

Biographies & Memoirs

HADDAD, JOUMANA

Community & Culture

Saqi Books

Joumana Haddad is angry. She finds the West’s portrayal of Arab women appalling and the image projected by many Middle Eastern women infuriating. “Being an Arab today means you need to be a hypocrite,” Haddad boldly states. “We constantly and obsessively think about sex but dare not talk about it.” In I Killed Scheherazade, Haddad challenges prevalent notions of Arab womanhood and, in the process, shatters the centuries-old stereotype of Scheherazade, the virgin heroine of The Arabian Nights who won the king’s affections. Fiery and candid, this provocative exploration of what it means to be an Arab woman today will enlighten and inform a new international feminism.

I Killed Scheherazade

Chicago Review Press

A book of history, heritage, loyalty, religion, feminism, families, and the Armenian genocide The Book of Queens is a family saga that spans four generations of women caught up in the tragic whirlwind of turf wars and suffering in the Middle East--from the Armenian genocide and the Israeli occupation of Palestine to modern-day civil wars and the struggles between Christians and Muslims in Lebanon and Syria. Four queens of a deck of cards dealt a bad hand by fate--Qayah, Qana, Qadar and Qamar--form the branches of the same family tree rooted in the land of their origins despite the forceful winds that repeatedly try to carry them away. A line of red-haired women united by the ties of blood that runs through their veins--which violence has spread through the ages--each with a deep story and all with one thing in common: unwavering power and resilience in the face of adversities of being a woman in a war-torn region. With the perfect mastery of finely chiseled writing, Joumana Haddad manages to construct a novel of extraordinary intensity, without ever sinking into pathos or grandiloquence. She also challenges the systematic abuse of political and religious power and authority that continues to cloud the lives of a culturally diverse and progressive youth until the present day.

The Book of Queens

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

INTERLINK+BOOKS

Invitation to a Secret Feast is the 5th book of poetry by noted Lebanese poet Joumana Haddad, edited and with an introduction by Khaled Mattawa (who also did some of the translations). Haddads passionate, poetic voice is renowned throughout Europe and the Middle East, and Tupelo is very proud to be the first to publish her work in this country. In these gorgeous translations, her voice sings, celebrating sexuality, femininity and womanhood.

Invitation to a Secret Feast: Selected Poems

Poetry

Tupelo Press

Le livre des reines

Literary

ED. J. CHAMBON

J'ai tué Schéhérazade: Confessions d'une femme arabe en colère

Actes-sud

HIJA DE LA COSTURERA, LA

Lumen

Cage (Arabe)

HACHETTE ANTOIN

The Third Sex

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