A vast world in ten minutes • Joumana Haddad

A novelist, essayist, journalist, and activist for women's rights in the Arab world, Joumana Haddad assails through her books and actions the misogyny and patriarchy that continue to permeate Lebanese society. Several of her books have been translated and published in France, most notably The Book of Queens, I Killed Scheherazade---Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman, Superman is an Arab: On God, Marriage, Macho Men and Other Disastrous Inventions, and The Return of Lilith.