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Dhat al Himmah

Shahrazad and Dhat al Himmah: Epics, Storytellers and Warrior Women


Posted by tasnim on 10 Apr 2012 / 0 Comments
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The Thousand and One Nights is by far the most famous collection of Arab popular narratives.  Its heroine Shahrazad has become the symbol of the complex interactions of gender and power as they relate to the region, from those who see her as a positive agent of change, as in Suzanne Gauch’s interestingly titled Liberating […]

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