Paradoxes of Care by Rania Kassab Sweis;

Author:Rania Kassab Sweis;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2021-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

FIGURE 5. Agricultural land in Beni Suef, 2008. Photograph by the author.

These registers of Muslim village girl suffering are not only present in global aid policy. They also frame depictions in popular culture, literature, and media about the Middle East and North Africa. In 2010, for example, I am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced, a gripping book recounting the life history of a ten-year-old Yemeni village girl, was published in English by Three Rivers Press.3 It targeted a wide international readership and was crafted to invoke compassion for village girls living in Muslim societies, telling how Nujood endured child marriage in Yemen, a place the co-author, Delphine Minoui, describes as an, “extraordinary and turbulent country.”4 Early on in the book, we are introduced to Nujood’s gentle, childlike face and veiled hair, which also grace the book’s front cover. Minoui introduces Nujood using universal language about the child, mirroring international children’s rights discourse, writing, “A tiny wisp of a thing, Nujood is neither queen nor princess. She is a normal girl with parents and plenty of brothers and sisters. Like all children her age, she loves to play hide-and-seek and adores chocolate.”5

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