![]() Through the eyes of Fatima, the reader enters the hidden worlds of other women and their diverse lives. The Tent (1996) is a novella written by Egyptian author Miral Al-Tahawy, which dives into the heart-wrenching experiences of Bedouin women and how the difficulty in their lives leads them to suffer from mental illnesses. Their lives are like silent, motionless seas without waves, and every now and then, a sea creature - a husband - shatters the surface by leaping through it. ![]() For her, the other women in the family are either wretched, crippled, possessed, or demented. She clasps every human heart in her hand as though they were nothing more than dead flesh that can be either kept or sold. ![]() The tent is akin to an ant she steps on wherever she walks. The desert’s landscape is only a natural extension of the incomparable space she controls no human cell ever moved freely under her watch. Was she really a woman? Fatima contemplates, as her grandmother walks inside the tent, covered in a large dark-blue garment that absorbs every atom in the air, and carries the vastness of the desert with it. ![]() Review: ‘The Tent’ Exposes the Mental Health Burden of Bedouin Women ![]()
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