Opening the Gates, Second EditionPraise for the first edition: "An impressive collection of more than 50 piecesessays, poems, folktales, short stories, memoirs, film scripts, lectures speechesby Arab women challenging the widely accepted view of Middle Eastern women as submissive non thinkers to whom feminism is a foreign concept." Booklist "Anyone interested in good writing should read [Opening the Gates]. Here are first class stories with the energy and freshness we expect from a