Nine Parts Of Desire: The Hidden World Of Islamic Women

Nine Parts Of Desire: The Hidden World Of Islamic Women

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When her poised and sophisticated yuppie assistant at the Cairo bureau of the Wall Street Journal suddenly 'adopted the uniform of a Muslim fundamentalist', Geraldine Brooks set out to discover the truth about women and Islam. Sometimes adopting a chador as camouflage, she was granted meetings (and often astonishingly intimate insights) by everyone from Queen Noor of Jordan to former Iranian President Rafsanjani's daughter. She met with Palestinians protesting about 'honour killings' for adultery and sheltered girls transformed into warriors by the Emirates' armed forces. Throughout the Middle East, Brooks was invited into the homes and lives of these women where she found real stories that overturn western stereotypes. Fair-minded and often revelatory, Nine Parts of Desire is an extraordinarily rich tapestry of the different lives women lead under Islam, and a captivating and diverse portrait of a little known world.

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  Reviewed by Lynette S. | see all reviews by Lynette S.

  04/02/2011

  This is a MUST read for any westerner, male and female thinking about moving, living or working in any islamic country but particularly in the Middle East. While no book can ever give us the exactness of reality for these people Geraldine Brooks has brought has so close to it and given an opportunity to put some context around the lives of this foreign existence, opportunity to build a basis at least with which to begin a level of understanding about a part in the world, a way of life never known in western styles of living. This is more than a story, this is a new beginning about age old traditions and secret practices that until now many of us have been protected from or are ignorant about. I have passed this onto many and they are left with their jaws hanging. Commonly said after reading this book, "I had no idea"!!
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