Write a 2-3 page paper in a reasonable font and observing all the normal rules of grammar and style. Be sure to base your answer to this question on primary sources that you read for last week.

 BE SURE to use footnotes to indicate where you got your examples!

Remember that the goal of this paper is to practice supporting your answer to the question asked with the primary sources that we have read in this class.  Make sure that you have a clear, one sentence answer to the question asked and that you provide primary source evidence for in the body of the essay.  Be sure that you explain how your evidence proves your main thesis.

The Question:

Compare Riverbend’s Baghdad Burning, Ghada Abdel Aal’s I want to get Married.  Given the background that you have gained from the primary documents and photographs in Clancy-Smith and Smith, The Modern Middle East and North Africa: A History in Documents, chapters 3, 4, and 5, what are the most important challenges that young women face in the Middle East?  Do you think that these problems are unique to young women or do young men face the same issues?