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Discontent is pathoplastic: it changes shape in response to the sometimes silent, sometimes violent shifts we call sociocultural change. Once-upon-a-time Arab women would lament their lack of curves, then they became aggrieved by the faintest trace of adiposity. Meet Reem.
[E]...eat and drink, without being immoderate, for God does not love the excessive.
(Qur’an 7:31)
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Thomas, J. (2013). Eating Disorders. In: Psychological Well-Being in the Gulf States. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137287519_2
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