Spanning more than 5000 years, from the pre-Islamic to the Andalusianperiods, Classical Poems by Arab Women presents rarely seen work by over sixty women writers who boldly refused to be silenced. From  sorrowful eulogies  to gleeful scorn, this collection offers a rich excursion into the vibrant, exclusively female worlds of pleasure, passion and pain, suppressed forcenturies by religious and political bigotry.