These self-portraits are fascinating reading and a mine of information for anyone interested in understanding contemporary Egyptian life. I don't know why."-Om Gad Their stories are fresh and vivid, recording the various roles of being co-wife in a polygamous marriage, the complications of divorce, the rituals of female circumcision and marriage, the loss of children, life-long hate and its source, the position of witchcraft and superstition in their daily lives, primitive health practices, and managing a family's meager resources, including the gold or silver khul-khaal anklets worn by married women. A girl's and a woman's lives are a trial whatever happens. And her main purpose in life is to marry and to have children. She has no assurance of being happy in her marriage. It's difficult in every sore of family and among all nationalities. "Our people prefer boys, because a girl's life is difficult.
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