![]() ![]() She then went down to the kitchen to ‘dutifully prepare coffee’ for him. ![]() Just before he died they had gone through the motions of having sex interrupted by the morning ‘call to prayer’. ![]() She draws on her own personal experience to highlight how deep-seated and widespread misogyny is in the Muslim world.Įltahawy starts off by recalling a story ‘Distant View of a Minaret’ by a feminist Egyptian writer Alifa Rafat about a middle-aged woman who finds her husband dead one morning. It is a book that was crying to be written and Mona Eltahawy, an Egyptian journalist, has shown courage in shining light on an issue (Muslim misogyny) which though well-known is not sufficiently talked about even by liberal Muslims. But, I must admit to have been wrong on all three counts. In this case, I was also put off by its seemingly titillating title. I’m generally wary of books that come with such a massive hype as this book does and I must confess to another bias: I’m doubly suspicious when a Muslim writer is hailed in the West for tearing into their own community. ![]()
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