“… women’s writing, by its very nature, overturns terra masculinus, succeeding not only in striking at and interrogating the patriarchal system but also in unearthing all that the system seeks to conceal. For Arab women, in particular, writing allows us to excavate the wounds of the past and bear witness to them; and while such writing may not lead to immediate or lasting social change, it stands as a permanent testament to the shared trauma that Arab women embody and their refusal to be silenced.”

I wrote an article on the pre-Islamic ritual of female infant burial and the symbolic silencing of Arab women for the inaugural issue of Epoch Magazine.