Stephanie B. Begin forwarded message: From: Jai B Date: November 7, 2016 at 06:27:14 PST To: Stephanie Subject: PEACE Greetings! I'll get straight to the point so there's a chance that you finish reading this. I'm sorry for all the times I was insensitive towards you. That goes to say after the divorce, during the marriage, and when we dated. I'm sorry for all the wrong that I've ever done to anyone, anything, or to the earth and universe as well. I love to speak to people in terms of energy
deal with barriers although at completely different levels: one physical and the other psychological. Fatima Mernissi is a superb writer who introduces the reader into a harem through the mind of a nine-year-old girl. In this autobiographical novel young Mernissi talks uncensored about the contradictions of life in a harem, surrounded by the extraordinary women in her family who are restrained from leaving the family courtyard. These women’s is a struggle of complete lack of freedom. They are
conventional Moroccan harem that holds realms of enchantment and disparage. Through her day to day life trifles of the harem life are shown. In Mernissi's growing up she is taught by her surrounding elders about the hudud that is often refereed to as the “sacred frontier”. This frontier is expected to be respected out of custom for Muslims. Disrespecting the hudud was to earn sorrow and unhappiness. The hudud though was composed of different kinds of frontiers inside life in the harem some being visible
The Harem – A Rare a Privilege of the Rich Harems conjure up images of belly dancers moving through smoke in exotic settings. Religious justification of subjugating women to be servants and sexual slaves is a common misnomer as are the images of belly dancers. Descriptions of harems by writers and society may be misleading for they hold the forbidden fruit, women cut off from society existing for man’s sexual pleasure. In actuality, harems were a privilege of those who could afford them and
very different frontiers (see pg 2), which ultimately led to the development of two very different women. Fatima was raised within the rigid confines of a walled city harem, but emerges a strong woman that is left unscathed by her oppressive childhood. As a child she was surrounded by strong feminist role models, who lived in the harem with her, that taught her to maintain dreams of trespass because they eventually would set her free.
Dreams of Trespass: Defining the Frontier In Fatima Mernissi’s widely acclaimed book Dreams of Trespass, the storyline weaves around the tale of a young girls’ life in a traditional Moroccan harem that is as much enchanting as it is disparaging. As we follow the young girl from day to day and experience all the little trivialities of her life, we notice that she is quite a precocious little child. She is constantly questioning, in fact, her mother and aunts constantly tell her that she should