Overview

Adapted from Joumana Haddad's memoir

I Killed Scheherazade:

"Courageous...Joumana Haddad breaks down the taboo of the Silent Absent Arab Woman."

Elfriede Jelinek

"It opens our eyes, destroys our prejudices, and is also very entertaining."

Mario Vargas Llosa

"A lesson of courage for all those who aspire, try, and fight in order to go beyond their own limits and chains."

Roberto Saviano

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Overview

Adapted from Joumana Haddad's memoir

I Killed Scheherazade:

"Courageous...Joumana Haddad breaks down the taboo of the Silent Absent Arab Woman."

Elfriede Jelinek

"It opens our eyes, destroys our prejudices, and is also very entertaining."

Mario Vargas Llosa

"A lesson of courage for all those who aspire, try, and fight in order to go beyond their own limits and chains."

Roberto Saviano

Confessions of an Arab Woman

Joumana Haddad is angry. She finds the West's portayal of Arab women appalling and the image projected by many Middle Eastern women infuriating. 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.

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