Shahrazad and the Oppressed Femininity

Mahmoud Hammad, Yusuf Qatami

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In this book, the author addressed specific details that other novels did not address before. It talks about recurring events faced by Arab middle eastern women which in turn had a significant impact on changing their course of life. Shahrazad’s novel is the best companion in which the image of the Arab woman and her life struggles are shown in the form of a collection of stories treated by the protagonist “Shahrazad” from her feminine point of view with the consultations of the antagonist, her husband. Who in turn gives his opinion from a purely misogynistic point of view.
In this psychological novel, Shahrazad tells her repressive husband true stories about several women she met by chance. Her pure feminine nature aroused her curiosity to learn about the hidden secrets behind the calm faces of these characters, where she finds hearts loaded with pain and suffering. Thus, Shahrazad took the initiative to help them, curing their wounds and ensuring a better life for them. Although she was unable to help herself and remained a victim of her tyrannical husband, Shahrazad couldn’t break her chains and remained trapped in the “great palace”, her eternal prison. She devoted herself by sacrificing and accepting to be the scented candle that burns for the happiness of others. Shahrazad and the Oppressed Femininity is a must-read book full of diverse and unique experiences.

Sujets

• Women
• Scheherezade
• Scheherazade
• Woman
• Psychology
• Arab people
• Arab
• The Women
• Novel
• Fiction

Informations

• Publié par: AuthorHouse
• Date de parution: 03 octobre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781665571852
• Langue: English

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Shahrazad and The Oppressed Femininity
 
 
 
 
Yusuf Qatami and Mahmoud Hammad
 
 
 

 
 
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Published by AuthorHouse 09/27/2022
 
ISBN: 978-1-6655-7186-9 (sc)
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Contents
Shahrazad Tempts Herself
Shahrazad Compliments
Shahrazad Talks to Her Virtual Friend
Shahrazad’s Priorities
The Narcissism of Shahrazad
Shahrazad and Aisha
Shahrazad and Ghandoura
Shahrazad and Jasmine
Shahrazad and Diana
Shahrazad and Samia
Shahrazad and Rihanna
Shahrazad and Nadia
Shahrazad and Noor
Shahrazad and Gharam
Shahrazad and Elham
Shahrazad and Susan

Shahrazad Tempts Herself
Here stands Shahrazad, meditating, bearing many things for the sake of the woman who gave birth to her. Shahrazad maintains silence. Sometimes she is optimistic and sometimes pessimistic. She stands with herself; “I am putting on my shoulders this responsibility to bear, the responsibility of the inherited woman’s tragedy since creation.”
“I wonder and ask myself if I am ready to take on more responsibilities and burdens? I ask myself why should I bear all this trouble, and for what? What do I want from this?”
The door of dialogue between Shahrazad and herself has shut. “I must bear it all, for am I not like the camel? Like the painting of the man carrying the sacred rock on his shoulders; he only wanted to carry it, and when taking that responsibility, he did not look around.”
“Are you up to this responsibility?”
“Have you thought carefully about the psychological harm that will be caused to you, Shahrazad?”
“Will you continue the long journey of saving the woman till the end?”
“Do you expect satisfaction from men whose wives have been returned, after they were lost, afraid, depressed, and unconscious?”
“I consider myself the fate of these four halos and more, I am ready to face their consequences.”
“But where are you, Shahrazad, in all of this?”
“I am everything. I say, lead, organize, repeat, and arrange.”
“I am present in every phrase I understand, speak, and pass on to the beloved woman.”
“I dedicate myself to be a servant to every woman who takes any breath and sheds any tear from her eyes. I am responsible for every tear shed by a woman and every sigh sighed by a woman suffering.”
“I am talking to myself exactly as if I am talking to any woman about what is bothering her. I know that women are afraid of many things that they claim to understand. I also know that women worry about many things that they do not know where they came from, who caused them, imposed them, or threw them in their way.”
“I know that women are agitated for reasons, and even for no reasons, and I understand that. I know that women have mastered the art of eagerness that any other living creature in this world lacks. They are the first and the last in teaching others the lessons of eagerness and passion.”
“I know that it is the woman who understands the meaning of the day and makes out of each letter uttered in this day, a life that only those who were subject to the day can understand.”
“I know that women come to terms with separation. That they master the art of separation, that they are patient about separation experiments, and that they master making it an austerity that serves their love and revolves around it.”
“I know that a woman has charm, but she wishes to die once she feels that she has lost her charm, which often happens as she grows older.”
“I know that she is the most altruistic creature. She perfectly deludes others that she is full even though she is starving, so that her companion, husband, love, son, or daughter will eat! Who can be more altruistic than a woman?”
And if I am to learn to describe the love of a woman since she was created, then she has been wrapped in the cover of beautiful patience, and if you “unintentionally” catch her while she is patient, you will realize that she has mastered Jacob’s patience for his separation from his beloved Joseph when he kept saying: “Beautiful patience and God helps.”
“I know that she is patient, and that her patience never runs out for any reason, she is always sure that her patience has a special taste; a taste only those who suffer with her know.”
Once in a while, she sings (beautiful patience) a song. From the first moment when love begins, you can require her to be patient, and she is able to assure you that she is to be patient. If you are not sure, then you can try it, and you will not find that your endeavor to undergo such a trial had been a risk. On the contrary, you will find that she is more patient than all the people of this universe.”
“I know that she becomes a volcano when she loves, and that the crater of this volcano won’t calm down until the Day of Judgment, but she controls her volcano whenever she wants and leaves it free to erupt whenever she wants. I know that her volcano is different from the volcanoes of the earth; it is a silent volcano, whose crater can release unexpected things, such as anger, hatred, audacity, severity, and cruelty, and then calm down. She can be silenced by simple things that trust in her value, and every woman has that which fits her value.”
When we talk about a woman’s jealousy, it should be mentioned that her jealousy is like a fire that burns everyone around her. When she is jealous, you can feel that she was only created to be jealous and nothing other than that.
“I know that she willingly dizzies those who are in front of her if she wants, and this may be one of her limitless tactics. No psychologist can determine or control this method, as she is an encyclopedia of the science of dizziness. Poor is he who stands facing one of the storms that women eject in the air.”
“I know that a woman makes you dizzy, makes you feel like you are in control of your dizziness, then pulls herself from responsibility, and claims that you are responsible for your own dizziness.”
“I know that a woman can do the impossible for whomever she wants, as she knows the map of ‘the impossible’ even better than Napoleon Bonaparte himself when he repeated: ‘I do not believe that there is anything impossible.’ The woman does not know that she represents the impossible itself, and she will always beat the impossible in any competition, if she wants to do so.”
“I know that when a woman wants, it is. And when not, it is not. Therefore, she limits the freedom of all others when she wants, and pulls their freedom when she wants, but when she pulls it, she makes you a slave who swore to obey, and never disobey, her commands, and so she is an army in one and an integrated nation in one.”
“I know that she easily causes anemia to others, as her look turns you into a yellow ghost of weakness.”
“I know that she can question other’s memories, and that you can become an Alzheimer’s patient even if you are still young. She has a way of weakening other’s memory if she wants, without feeling that she is destroying the youth of those who stand in front of her.”
“I know that she can make anyone feel worthless, disappointed, lost, and scattered because she has a hidden storage of experiences. A storage that she may have inherited from the history of the first woman on earth; her hypothetical mother from whose memory were copied all the events of creation in an imaginary tape that she learned without prior intention.”
Shahrazad sat with herself, recalculating, and assuring herself that what she said was correct. But she entered a zone of self-doubts and noticed some fears that she once thought she was immune to.
Shahrazad put her hand on her cheek; she went through black thoughts. “Aren’t you a woman like all women?”
“My name is Shahrazad, and that makes me special!”
“You have wronged yourself, Shahrazad. What forces you to bear and witness all this pain? What forces you to be patient and intelligently listen to every woman? What guarantees your safety after you get out of this swamp that you do not believe in? What makes you think that you are immune to the infection of this psychological consumption that you fall within unintentionally?”
“You are right with all your whats (what, what, what, what)! But I would like to assure you that I have an intelligent intuition that provides me with the appropriate solution for every situation or trap I might fall into. It is true that I may have the definitive answer with which to reassure you, but my intuition tells me that, as long as I have a previous successful emotional experience, I will find success in everything I do; because I feel that I have a great mission that only a great woman can handle, a woman who is strong enough to bear all the torments, sufferings, and annoyances that will be inflicted on her as a result of my passing by.”
“I will succeed, and