Now that Arab women are pouring into the streets by the million, men discover with dismay that they, not women, were the captives of the harem dream. (Fatema Mernissi)

Now that Arab women are pouring into the streets by the million, men discover with dismay that they, not women, were the captives of the harem dream.

Fatema Mernissi

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