5 Sex in the Citadel: Intimate life in a changing Arab world.

5 SEX IN THE CITADEL

Intimate life in a changing Arab world

By Shereen El Feki

Published by Chatto & Windus

ISBN 9780701183165

Price 14.99 [pounds sterling] paperback

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As political change sweeps the streets and squares, parliaments and presidential palaces of the Arab world, Shereen El Feki has been looking at upheaval a little closer to home--in the sexual lives of men and women in Egypt and across the region. The result is an informative, insightful and engaging account of a highly sensitive, and still largely secret, aspect of Arab society. Sex is entwined in religion and tradition, politics and economics, gender and generations, so it makes the perfect lens for examining the region's complex social landscape. From pregnant virgins to desperate housewives, from fearless activists to religious firebrands, Sex and the Citadel takes a new look at the sexual history of the Arab region, and brings contemporary voices to the debate over its future.