'Dreams of Trespass : Tales of a Harem Girlhood' by Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist Fatema Mernissi (1940 - 2015). The work describes Mernissi's 'youth in a Moroccan harem during the 1940s and brings up topics such as Islamic feminism, Arab nationalism, French colonialism and the clash between the traditional and the modern'. (wikipedia) It is a fictional work based on realistic events, and is told as a memoir. First published in 1994.