Khul-Khaal: Five Egyptian Women Tell Their Stories Atiya Nayra
Khul-Khaal: Five Egyptian Women Tell Their Stories Atiya Nayra "Our people prefer boys, because a girl's life is difficult. A girl's life is not like a man's life. It's difficult in every sore of…
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Khul-Khaal: Five Egyptian Women Tell Their Stories Atiya Nayra
"Our people prefer boys, because a girl's life is difficult. A girl's life is not like a man's life. It's difficult in every sore of family and among all nationalities.
And her main purpose in life is to marry and to have children. She has no assurance of being happy in her marriage. A girl's and a woman's lives are a trial whatever happens.
I don't know why."--Om GadTheir stories are fresh and vivid, recording the various roles of being co-wife in a polygamous marriage, the complications of divorce, the rituals of female circumcision and marriage, the loss of children, life-long hate and its source, the position of witchcraft and superstition in their daily lives, primitive health practices, and managing a family's meager resources, including the gold or silver khul-khaal anklets worn by married women.These self-portraits are fascinating reading and a mine of