Titel: Voices from the silence Author(s) Name(s): Yahya Ekhou ISBN-10 : 3949554300 ISBN-13 : 978-3949554308 Publisher: Akono Verlag Publication date : 5 Sept. 2025 Format: Hardcover Page count : 120 Language: German Description: What is life like for women in a country characterized by patriarchal structures, religious control, and deeply rooted traditions? This book brings together atmospheric biographies of Mauritanian women speak about the impact of social norms and religious rules on their lives. Their stories deal with personal experiences of discrimination and repression but also with a thirst for knowledge, curiosity, protest, love, escape, and change. Written by Yahya Ekhou, a Mauritanian author and human rights activist in exile, they provide insight into realities that are little known outside the country. An important, rare contemporary testimony about female self-assertion in a largely isolated state and a call for international attention.
Voices from the silence
Author(s) Name(s): Yahya Ekhou
ISBN-10 : 3949554300
ISBN-13 : 978-3949554308
Publisher: Akono Verlag
Publication date : 5 Sept. 2025
Format: Hardcover
Page count : 120
Language: German
Description:
What is life like for women in a country characterized by patriarchal structures, religious control, and deeply rooted traditions?
This book brings together atmospheric biographies of Mauritanian women
speak about the impact of social norms and religious rules on their lives. Their stories deal with personal experiences of discrimination and repression but also with a thirst for knowledge, curiosity, protest, love, escape, and change. Written by Yahya Ekhou, a Mauritanian author and human rights activist in exile, they provide insight into realities that are little known outside the country. An important, rare contemporary testimony about female self-assertion in a largely isolated state and a call for international attention.
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