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Year of the Elephant: A Moroccan Woman's Journey Toward Independence

Offering a fictional treatment to a Muslim woman's life, here, a personal and family crisis impells the heroine to reexamine traditional cultural attitudes toward women. Both obstacles and support systems change as she actively participates in the struggle for Moroccan independence from France.

Themes
feminismislam
Subject
travel
Audience
adult
Length
short · 129 pages

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