books.google.com - More convincingly than any other woman writing in Arabic today, Alifa Rifaat, an Egyptian, lifts the veil on what it means to be a woman living within a traditional Muslim society. Her writing articulates a subtle revolt against, and a sympathetic insight into, the place of women in the essentially male-dominated...http://books.google.com/books/about/Distant_View_of_a_Minaret.html?id=5BxI_57l_CkC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareDistant View of a Minaret
