The love life of Arabs is terra incognita for researchers and plan makers. Shereen El Feki’s guide “Sex plus the Citadel” is the first severe attempt to document sexual intimacy in the quickly changing Arab world.
“we swear by Jesus, discover a genuine requirement for expertise on this topic. Individuals who don’t know about sex or making fun of it, is unaware, stupid, small-minded”, claims Dr. Shereen El Feki. “For our forefathers, gender ended up being a supply of glee, creativity and vitality. Today it is a taboo, and it’s really problematised into the Arab media”. The mediaeval Arab author Umar Muhammad al-Nafzawi, whom written the sex manual The Perfumed outdoors, would turn in their grave at the sexual mores of today’s Arabs.
The consequence of El Feki’s quest was a must-read, a-one Thousand and One Nights of tough data, polls and personal testimonies, well-researched news media and a personal memoir. Gender within the Arab industry is actually an enigma, an Egyptian gynaecologist clarifies to El Feki: “It may be the opposite of sports. Continue reading “From inside the Arab Bed Room: The Sex Life of Arabs”