Subject

The Women Storytellers Said

Summary

Qalat al-rawiyaat… ma lam taqulhu Shahrzad (The Women Storytellers Said… What Shahrazad Didn’t Say) is a collection of gender sensitive stories written by eight Egyptian women writers affiliated to the Women and Memory Storytelling Group. Working with the editor, the writers reworked versions of tales from the famous Alf Layla tradition (A Thousand and One Nights). The writing workshop which included eight participants (Hala Kamal, Maha El-Said, Mona Ibrahim, Mounira Soliman, Omaima Abou-Bakr, Sahar El-Mougy, Seham Abdel-Salam and Soha Raafat), resulted into a number of texts which were interwoven together in one cohesive book.