{"title":"Shaimaa Khalil","description":"\u003cp\u003eShaimaa Khalil’s works delve into the complexities of personal identity and resilience through powerful storytelling. Her narratives, often framed within \u003cem\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Memoir\u003c\/em\u003e, offer a vivid exploration of lived experiences and self-discovery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect intimate portraits that blend reflective insight with compelling voices, bringing to light the struggles and triumphs of those navigating challenging paths. Khalil’s writing invites thoughtful reflection on the human spirit’s endurance.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"runaways-by-shaimaa-khalil-9781761150647","title":"Runaways","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTwo women. Two cultures. And a friendship that freed them both.​\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘We don’t choose where we’re born. Geography ends up being everything.’\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShaimaa Khalil and Shelley Davidow met twenty years ago in the Middle East when Shaimaa was Shelley’s student at the University of Qatar. Strangers in a strange land where the silencing and oppression of women are deeply entrenched, they immediately formed a deep and abiding bond.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShelley saw Shaimaa as her ‘Rosetta Stone’, helping her decode a culture and world so foreign it appeared to be from another planet. Shaimaa saw Shelley and her apartment as her ‘Tardis’, a space where she could glimpse a world she dreamed of inhabiting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBorn a decade apart on opposite ends of the African continent – Shaimaa, an Arab Muslim from Egypt, and Shelley, an Ashkenazi Jew from South Africa – tell the story of a friendship that has defied historical, geographic, and temporal boundaries, mapping the vast emotional and geographic territories they have travelled as women pushing against patriarchal confines over the past two decades. In an exchange of words and memories, Shaimaa and Shelley recall what shaped them, what broke them, and how they made themselves whole again through their interwoven stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Arotahi Agency","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48243937313004,"sku":"9781761150647","price":41.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781761150647-runaways-1.jpg?v=1787990880"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/shaimaa-khalil.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}