Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood
Author: Fatema Mernissi
This ‘wonderful and enchanting’ memoir tells the revelatory true story of one Muslim girl’s life in her family’s French Moroccan harem, set against the backdrop of World War II (The New York Times Book Review). ‘I was born in a harem in 1940 in Fez, Morocco . . . ‘ So begins Fatima Mernissi in this illuminating narrative of a childhood behind the iron gates of a domestic h….Read More
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