Sisters in war : a story of love, family, and survival in the new Iraq
Title:
Sisters in war : a story of love, family, and survival in the new Iraq
Author:
Asquith, Christina
ISBN:
9781400067046
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Random House, 2009
Physical Description:
335 p. ; 25 cm
Abstract:
Caught up in a terrifying war, facing choices of life and death, two Iraqi sisters take us into the hidden world of women's lives under U.S. occupation. Through their powerful story of love and betrayal, interwoven with the stories of a Palestinian American women's rights activist and a U.S. soldier, journalist Christina Asquith explores one of the great untold sagas of the Iraq war: the attempt to bring women's rights to Iraq, and the consequences for all those involved.
Subject:
| Women -- Iraq -- Social conditions |
| Women, Arab -- Iraq -- Social conditions |
| Women's rights -- -- Iraq |
| Iraq War, 2003- -- Women |
| Iraq -- Social conditions |
Summary:
Caught up in a terrifying war, facing choices of life and death, two Iraqi sisters take us into the hidden world of women's lives under U.S. occupation. Through their powerful story of love and betrayal, interwoven with the stories of a Palestinian American women's rights activist and a U.S. soldier, journalist Christina Asquith explores one of the great untold sagas of the Iraq war: the attempt to bring women's rights to Iraq, and the consequences for all those involved.