SAILING AGAINST THE WIND: Autobiography of an Emancipated Woman

The book provides memoirs of a university professor of arts and home economics who relates to us a vivid and unabashed portrait of family feuds, sibling rivalry and the dramatic cultural clashes between the present and the past. All of that is within the frame of a life, she is sustaining in Egypt, a typical Middle Eastern country. One of the important dilemmas encountered in that life span is the gruesome attempts of a woman to destroy the life of her older sister driven by envy and lack of confidence in herself.