Excellent Daughters: The Secret Lives of Young Women Who Are Transforming The Arab World

By Katherine Zoepf ’00

Published May 3, 2016

Excellent Daughters explores the story of the recent generation of female adolescents in the Arab world whose roles are in flux as they increasingly challenge the religious and social traditions of the past. Katherine Zoepf reported from the Middle East for more than a decade. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The New York Observer.

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