In the House of Silence : Autobiographical Essays by Arab Women Writers Book

	Preface
	Introduction	1
1	The story of a novel or reflections of details in the mirror: between awareness and madness	25
2	Writing as a way out	33
3	I write against my hand	41
4	Stories from the house of songs	49
5	Creatures of Arab fear	63
6	Writing and the notion of searching for female identity	73
7	Writing against time and history	79
8	Writing away the prison	91
9	The essence of language	105
10	Alone with pen and paper	111
11	Writing and the pursuit of female identity	119
12	I knew her when she wrote	131
13	Birth of a writer	141
	Conclusion	159