now, you today have a very powerful, unique, creative voice. you use it loudly. how difficult was it to find that voice, to make that move away? now, i should say, i do come from a traditional observant background. however, my father is a professor of history. so from that perspective, i came from an intellectually very open culture, even whilst, yes, i have been to a talk as a young woman on the subject, the beauty of a woman is in her silence. so, yes. and you were brought up in a religion and you talk about it quite openly in stuff you ve written about your past, where at school, every morning, everybody said, thank you, god, for not making me a slave. and then the boys said, thank you, god, for not making me a woman. yes, and the girls say, thank you, god, for making me according to your will. yes, it s, in some ways, quite a misogynist religion. i think that is a very misogynist type of prayer. i think i became increasingly. well, i certainly increasingly had the
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naomi alderman, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. i want to start at the beginning. you were raised in a very traditional, observant orthodoxjewish community in north london where, i think it s fair to say, women and girls were expected, by and large, to stay in the background. now, you today have a very powerful, unique, creative voice. you use it loudly. how difficult was it to find that voice, to make that move away? now, i should say, i do come from a traditional observant background. however, my father is a professor of history. so from that perspective, i came from an intellectually very open culture, even whilst, yes, i have been to a talk as a young woman on the subject, the beauty of a woman is in her silence. so, yes. and you were brought up in a religion and you talk about it quite openly in stuff you ve written about your past, where at school, every morning, everybody said, thank you, god, for not making me a slave. and then the boys said, thank
women and girls were expected, by and large, to stay in the background. now, you today have a very powerful, unique, creative voice. you use it loudly. how difficult was it to find that voice, to make that move away? now, i should say, i do come from a traditional observant background. however, my father is a professor of history. so from that perspective, i came from an intellectually very open culture, even whilst, yes, i have been to a talk as a young woman on the subject, the beauty of a woman is in her silence. so, yes. and you were brought up in a religion and you talk about it quite openly in stuff you ve written about your past, where at school, every morning, everybody said, thank you, god, for not making me a slave. and then the boys said, thank you, god, for not making me a woman. yes. and the girls say, thank you, god, for making me according to your will. yes, it s, in some ways, quite a misogynist religion. i think that is a very misogynist type of praye
talking about the stability of a six or seven week ceasefire in gaza. but, of course, israel decided not to send a delegation. israel s says the preconditions it insisted upon that hamas should provide a list of the hostages who remain alive, and those who might be exchanged in a prisoner swap, or hostage swap, with the palestinians, that wasn t forthcoming. so israel has decided not to send a delegation to cairo. that has been criticised in many parts of the israeli media, and the israeli public, as an unsustainable position. that isn t to say that had israel gone to cairo, there would be an automatic ceasefire there would be others stumbling blocks. hamas wants the withdrawal of israeli troops from populated areas of gaza and the citizens of gaza to be allowed to return to their home areas in northern gaza. and those are significant issues that israel might have objected to. meanwhile, the humanitarian situation in gaza is said to be increasingly dire. the israeli attac