Prisoner of the Levant: By Darina Al Joundi - Hardcoverby Darina Al Joundi (Author), Helen Vassallo (Translator) "I had a dream that women, all women, will hold their heads high, that women will work, that in their eyes we will no longer see fear or defeat or humiliation. That women will never again be shackled by society, or by circumstance, or by men. Instead we will see in the eyes of every woman a person fully in control of herself, and mistress of her own destiny." Cairo, 1920. In the cafs and