Runaways by Shaimaa Khalil, Shelley Davidow - 9781761150647

Ultimo Press

RunawaysAuthor(s): Shaimaa Khalil, Shelley Davidow\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Ultimo Press, Australia\nImprint: Ultimo Press\nISBN-13: 9781761150647, 978-1761150647\nSynopsis\nTwo women. Two cultures. And a friendship that freed them both.\n\n We dont choose where were born. Geography ends up being everything. \n\n Shaimaa Khalil and Shelley Davidow met twenty years ago in the Middle East when Shaimaa was Shelleys student at the University of Qatar. Strangers in a strange land where the silencing and oppression of women is deeply entrenched, they immediately formed a deep and abiding bond. \n\n Shelley 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. \n\n Born a decade apart on opposite ends of the African continent Shaimaa, an Arab Muslim from Egypt and Shelley an Ashkenazi Jew from Sout.