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An interesting memoir by Fatema Mernessi that spans a very short period of her young life - until she was about nine years old. Mernissi was a Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist, who died in November 2015. Her early years were spent living in a harem in Fez - harem was the place of shelter or the living quarters for females - mothers, daughters, widows, aunts, etc. Men’s quarters were separate. There were dos and don’ts - no crossing the “hudud” or frontier, and girls were taught to respec
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