Arab Women are Speaking.

Why is mainstream media ignoring us?

When my book A Woman Is a School was released, it sold 3,000 copies in the first three months—a remarkable feat for an independently published work. Yet, despite its success and the critical conversations it sparked about womanhood, diaspora, and resistance, mainstream media outlets remained largely silent. Not silent, as in the story wasn’t a good fit — silent, as in, writers were excitedly pitching the book to their editors, only for us to experience the same bottleneck every time: these stories would go through a rigorous review, before ultimately being rejected by editors whose hands seemed to be tied.