The Cry of the Dove

✍ Faqir, Fadia 📂 Fiction 📅 2007 🏛 Grove Atlantic 🌐 English ⚖ 483 KB

The new novel from Jordanian-British writer and human rights activist Fadia Faqir is a gripping tale of forbidden love, violated honor, and exile. Salma has committed a crime considered punishable by death among her Bedouin tribe of Hima in the Levant: she had sex out of wedlock and became pregnant.

The Cry of the Dove

✍ Fadia Faqir 📂 Fiction 📅 2011;2008 🏛 Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic 🌐 English ⚖ 173 KB

Left pregnant after an illicit love affair, Saalma, a young Bedouin woman from Hima in the Levant, flees her people to escape the honor killing waiting for her at the hands of her tribe and seeks asylum in England.

The Cry of the Dove:: A Novel

📂 Standards 🌐 English ⚖ 416 KB

Timely and lyrical, The Cry of the Dove is the story of one young woman and an evocative portrait of forbidden love and violated honor in a culture whose reverberations are felt profoundly in our world today. Salma has committed a crime punishable by death in her Bedouin tribe of Hima, Levant: she h

The Cry of the Dove (My Name Is Salma)

✍ Faqir, Fadia 📂 Fiction 📅 2009 🌐 English ⚖ 506 KB

The Cry of the Dove (My Name Is Salma)

✍ Faqir, Fadia 📂 Fiction 📅 2009 🌐 English ⚖ 476 KB

The Cry of the Dove (My Name Is Salma)

✍ Faqir, Fadia 📂 Fiction 📅 2009 🌐 English ⚖ 419 KB