Shahrazad is not Moroccan, by Fatima al-Mernissi

Scheherazade! Who is this woman whose name evokes dreams and why does she make us dream? Scheherazade's story represents this incredible victory of the innocent and the weak who succeed in changing their fate by flattering their executioner, transforming hatred into love, where the threat of sudden death becomes like lightning, a long chain of nights of love. Scheherazade's achievement would not have been possible if she had not stored a vast amount of news that she used to build her stories, where astonishing realistic details indicate exceptional knowledge and a deep understanding of the world and beings. It is not about one story or two or three, but a thousand stories, that is, two years and nine months of thirty days and one day. Could a brave girl, the daughter of an illiterate farmer in Shahryar's capital, accomplish this feat? Here lies the only important answer, and we can find it in the book, the same reference, in A Thousand and One Nights, the book we have been devouring for centuries without carefully exploring the class mechanism that controls the fairy tale. It is time to start analyzing what bewitches us and makes us dream. Through this presentation, researcher Fatima al-Mernissi embarks on an investigative intellectual journey to explore the Moroccan society, to monitor the position of Moroccan women, their changing roles, and the perception of them both intellectually and socially over successive periods, inspired by Scheherazade, to draw the Moroccan society's and especially women's attention to the importance of playing the role of the era; that is, not wasting a single minute lamenting what this society possesses (we lack the technology we should have, we do not have the right climate or the right currency...) but rather investing this precious minute in imagining how to change the distribution. Technological knowledge can be extracted: the license, training, successful TV program, newspaper article, expert listening... and not necessarily by eliminating the partner, but simply by skillfully playing the game, especially when the game is life, simply. Number of pages: 200