Women in the Middle East and North Africa: change and continuity, by Elhum Haghighat-Sordellini

certain undergraduate students who are interested only in isolated self-help issues. To those who wish to see social work as a vehicle of social transformation, this is a disappointment. A self-help practice guide is useful to withstand a personal misfortune but it does not go far enough when your house is on fire, the country has gone bankrupt and its civic culture has melted down. The contours of the twentyfirst century appear challenging and uncertain. We must first look inside the box before we reconnect the dots outside the box. What is eminently clear is that our poverty of culture has failed humanity as a whole.