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I Want to Get Married! - One Wannabe Bride's Misadventures with Handsome Houdinis, Technicolor Grooms, Morality Police, and Other Mr. Not Quite Rights (Paperback) Loot Price: R650
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I Want to Get Married! - One Wannabe Bride's Misadventures with Handsome Houdinis, Technicolor Grooms, Morality Police,...

I Want to Get Married! - One Wannabe Bride's Misadventures with Handsome Houdinis, Technicolor Grooms, Morality Police, and Other Mr. Not Quite Rights (Paperback)

Ghada Abdel Aal; Translated by Nora Eltahawy

Series: Emerging Voices from the Middle East

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The rules may differ from country to country, but the dating game is a universal constant.

After years of searching for Mr. Right in living-room meetings arranged by family or friends, Ghada Abdel Aal, a young Egyptian professional, decided to take to the blogosphere to share her experiences and vent her frustrations at being young, single, and female in Egypt. Her blog, I Want to Get Married , quickly became a hit with both men and women in the Arab world. With a keen sense of humor and biting social commentary, Abdel Aal recounts in painful detail her adventures with failed proposals and unacceptable suitors. There's Mr. Precious, who storms out during their first meeting when he feels his favorite athlete has been slighted, and another suitor who robs her in broad daylight, to name just a few of the characters she runs across in her pursuit of wedded bliss.

I Want to Get Married has since become a best-selling book in Egypt and the inspiration for a television series. This witty look at dating challenges skewed representations of the Middle East and presents a realistic picture of what it means to be a single young woman in the Arab world, where, like elsewhere, a good man can be hard to find.

General

Imprint: University Of Texas Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Emerging Voices from the Middle East
Release date: October 2010
First published: October 2010
Authors: Ghada Abdel Aal
Translators: Nora Eltahawy
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 978-0-292-72397-9
Subtitles: Arabic
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
Books > Biography > General
LSN: 0-292-72397-0
Barcode: 9780292723979

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