Dones Valentes
A tribute to the women who have not submitted and who are changing the history of the Middle East. The female revolution in the Arab world through thirteen moving stories.
The view of journalist Txell Feixas Torras, Middle East correspondent for TV3 (Televisió Nacional de Catalunya), is sensitive to the stories of brave, anonymous women who may not find space in the news, but who move, empower and tell better than any other news the changes that will come and that have been knocking on the door of the Arab countries for some time.
The Middle East is experiencing an ongoing revolution, persistent and determined like no other: it begins just when a girl is born, and continues throughout her childhood, youth, adulthood and old age. It is the women’s revolution. Theirs is a relentless, never-ending struggle against the secular patriarchy that dominates politics, culture and society. At times, the struggle is for pure survival; at others, a conscious and organised – political – struggle to win and defend such basic rights as the right to be born, the right to have an abortion, the right to an education, to a decent job, to defend yourself from those who want to destroy you, to keep what they have not yet been able to borrow from you… The right, in short, to exist.
PRESS
«Why is Txell Feixas Torras able to show us so many stories, so huge, so portentous, so honourable, so transcendent, and all of them, all of them, starring women? Easy: because Txell Feixas Torras sees them. Because she wants to see them. Because the lives of all these brave women have not become transparent to her, when she has come across them in Beirut, in Gaza, in Rojava, in Iraqi Kurdistan, in Syria» Gemma Ruiz Palà, in the book’s prologue
TRANSLATIONS
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