muslim women

Presents the author's first-hand account of her life as the daughter of Saddam Hussein's personal pilot, including information on her childhood, her arranged marriage in the United States, and her life after escaping the dictator's regime.

Saria, a second generation Muslim-American, decides to pursue a college education after learning family secrets about her grandfather, but the terrorist attacks in 2001 anda family tragedy cause Saria to question her choice to become an international journalist.

Highlights the lives of two champions of Muslim women's rights, Islam critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali and neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui, to examine the role women have played in the conflict between radical Islam and the West.

A feminist in the Muslim world weaves her own memories with dreams of women who surround her in the courtyard of her childhood.

Collection of interviews of Muslim women from professionals to peasants revealing women's lives from Saudi Arabia to the United Arab Emirates.

Examines the life of Muslim women, and the often contradictory political, religious, and cultural forces that shape their lives.

Presents an overview of the struggle for women's rights in Iran, chronicling the events, organizations, and leaders of the movement.

Growing up in Iran, Nahid Rachlin and her beloved sister, Pari, decided to refuse traditional Muslim ways and dreamed of careers in literature and on the stage. Their lives changed abruptly when Pari was coerced by their father into marrying a wealthy and cruel husband. Nahid narrowly avoided a similar fate and negotiated with her father to pursue her studies in America, which she continued to live in after college and marriage. When she received the news that Pari had died after falling down a flight of stairs, Nahid traveled back to Iran, now under the Islamic regime, to find out what really happened and evaluate what the future holds for the heartbroken.

Contains seventeen essays in which feminist Ayaan Hirsi Ali questions aspects of Islam, the religion of her birth, including its treatment of women, and calls upon Western nations to lead the struggle for reform.