Excellent Daughters The Secret Lives of Young Women who are Transforming the Arab World

A generation ago, female adolescence did not exist in the Middle East. There were only children and married women. Today, young Arab women outnumber men in universities, and a few are beginning to face down religious and social tradition in order to live independently, to delay marriage, and to pursue professional goals. Hundreds of thousands of devout girls and women are attending Qur'anic schools and using the training to argue for greater rights and freedoms from an Islamic perspective. And, in 2011, young women helped to lead antigovernment protests in the Arab Spring. This book tells the story from 9/11 to Tahrir Square to the rise of ISIS and gives voice to the women at the forefront of this change.