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A review by naimfrewat
سوبرمان عربي by Joumana Haddad, جمانة حداد
1.0
One star because this book is weakly constructed, unedited and a repetition of clichés which have stopped being provocative decades ago.
The writer might be angry but she is above all extremely hurt from her relationships.
The book then comes as a cocktail of ideas, poems, recommendations, quotes, testimonies and unreferenced facts against patriarchy and some men. Some men, because Joumana still wants to be love and get married. Having spent 140 pages destroying all the structures of marriage, she still advocates for it as the solution (one of them at least) to the problems of unhappy, oppressed women.
Despite the idea she wants to sell us that she is liberal, liberated, an arab women who dares speak about sex and the good use of the penis, her loving words, her words that capture her honest emotions remain those addressed towards monogamous marriage.
It's this type of contradiction which is at her self's core and which extends across the book's arguments and analysis (though both are an exaggeration) that makes it a difficult read.
The writer might be angry but she is above all extremely hurt from her relationships.
The book then comes as a cocktail of ideas, poems, recommendations, quotes, testimonies and unreferenced facts against patriarchy and some men. Some men, because Joumana still wants to be love and get married. Having spent 140 pages destroying all the structures of marriage, she still advocates for it as the solution (one of them at least) to the problems of unhappy, oppressed women.
Despite the idea she wants to sell us that she is liberal, liberated, an arab women who dares speak about sex and the good use of the penis, her loving words, her words that capture her honest emotions remain those addressed towards monogamous marriage.
It's this type of contradiction which is at her self's core and which extends across the book's arguments and analysis (though both are an exaggeration) that makes it a difficult read.