"Mothers should tell little girls and boys about the importance of dreams,' Aunt Habiba said. 'They give a sense direc…"

"But when your situation is hopeless, all you can do is turn the world upside down, transform it according to your wis…"

"There are many ways to be beautiful. Fighting, swearing, and ignoring tradition could make a women irresistible."

"But it was the radio incident that taught me an important lesson. It was then that Mother told me about the need to c…"

"To make babies, the bride and groom had to dress up nicely, put flowers in their hair and lie down together on a very…"

"Sometimes, she said that to be stuck in a harem simply meant that a woman had lost her freedom of movement. Other tim…"

"The French do not imprison their wives behind walls, my dear mother-in-law,' she would say. 'They let them run wild i…"

"She would take him to faraway lands to observe foreign ways, so he could get closer to the strangeness within himself."

"But since then, looking for the frontier has become my life’s occupation. Anxiety eats at me whenever I cannot situat…"

"Being frozen into the passive position of an object whose very existence depends on the eye of its beholder turn the …"