Summer Reading Suggestions 2015: Religion

The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of Why Priests? considers Pope Francis's potential for enabling change in the Catholic Church. He analyzes seven key examples of profound change within the past century that have not been advanced by the papacy.

Eltahawy draws on her years as a campaigner and commentator on women's issues in the Middle East and explains that since the Arab Spring began, women in the Arab world have had two revolutions to undertake: one fought with men against oppressive regimes, and another fought against an entire political and economic system that treats women as second-class citizens.