In Syria, before its civil war, she documents a complex society in the midst of soul searching about its place in the world and about the role of women. And, in 2011, young women helped to lead antigovernment protests in the Arab Spring. Hundreds of thousands of devout girls and women are attending Qur'anic schools-and using the training to argue for greater rights and freedoms from an Islamic perspective. Today, young Arab women outnumber men in universities, and a few are beginning to face down religious and social tradition in order to live independently, to delay marriage, and to pursue professional goals. There were only children and married women.
Only a generation ago, female adolescence as we know it in the West did not exist in the Middle East. For more than a decade, Katherine Zoepf has lived in or traveled throughout the Arab world, reporting on the lives of women, whose role in the region has never been more in flux.
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