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Caught up in a terrifying war, facing choices of life and death, two Iraqi sisters take us into the hidden world of womenβs lives under U.S. occupation. Through their powerful story of love and betrayal, interwoven with the stories of a Palestinian American womenβs 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 womenβs rights to Iraq, and the consequences for all those involved.
On the heels of the invasion, twenty-two-year-old Zia accepts a job inside the U.S. headquarters in Baghdad, trusting that democracy will shield her burgeoning romance with an American contractor from the disapproval of her fellow Iraqis. But as resistance to the U.S. occupation intensifies, Zia and her sister, Nunu, a university student, are targeted by Islamic insurgents and find themselves trapped between their hopes for a new country and the violent reality of a misguided war.
Asquith sets their struggle against the broader U.S. efforts to bring womenβs rights to Iraq, weaving the sistersβ story with those of Manal, a Palestinian American womenβs rights activist, and Heather, a U.S. army reservist, who work together to found Iraqβs first womenβs center. After one of their female colleagues is gunned down on a highway, Manal and Heather must decide whether they can keep fighting for Iraqi women if it means risking their own lives.
In Sisters in War , Christina Asquith introduces the reader to four women who dare to stand up for their rights in the most desperate circumstances. With compassion and grace, she vividly reveals the plight of women living and serving in Iraq and offers us a vision of how womenβs rights and Islam might be reconciled.
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