Today, young Arab women outnumber men in universities, and a few are beginning to face down religious and social tradition in order to live independently, to delay marriage, and to pursue professional goals. There were only children and married women. Only a generation ago, female adolescence as we know it in the West did not exist in the Middle East. Join Author Katherine Zoepf and Cultural Counselor Bénédicte de Montlaur as they discuss Excellent Daughters: The Secret Lives of Young Women Who Are Transforming the Arab World, Zoepf’s masterful investigation that gives voice to the remarkable women who have changed Arab societies-from 9/11 to Tahrir Square to the rise of ISIS.įor more than a decade, Katherine Zoepf has lived in or traveled throughout the Arab world, reporting on the lives of women, whose role in the region has never been more in flux.
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