One of my favourite discoveries in quite some time. It's been ages since I last highlighted so many memorable passages in a book (the Kindle edition I should hasten to add lest you think I deface the print media).

This series of essays started off as a riposte to clichés about "Arab Women" mainly in the West and in a series of autobiographical pieces Haddad discusses how she became the woman she is.

And the beauty of this book is that this is eventually indeed not about Arab Women or even about Women in general but about humanity and what it means to be free.