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Title: Behind the Burqa: Our Life in Afghanistan and How We Escaped to Freedom by Sulima and Hala, Batya Swift Yasgur ISBN: 0-471-26389-3 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 30 September, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.88 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Timely Topic, A Powerful and Exciting Book
Comment: I saw the Court-TV production of CHASING FREEDOM this past Monday (Jan 19). Appropriately, it aired on Martin Luther King Day. It was the story of an Afghan women who fled to the US after escaping horrible treatment by the Taliban. When she came to the US, she was put into detention. It was a great movie and it really brought to life events in Afghanistan and also in US detention centers. The story told in BEHIND THE BURQA is very similar. I can't believe our country is still imprisoning people fleeing persecution. This book (BEHIND THE BURQA) was an amazing experience to read. The suspense was incredible, and I learned about detention in a very vivid way. I recommend the book to anyone who wants to find out more about this very important issue, and to everyone who wants to read a great book!!
Rating: 5
Summary: Suspenseful, Informative and very Current
Comment: This book is a powerful account of two brave sisters and their fight for human rights in a fundamentalist society, both for themselves and for other Afghan women. The two sisters hold divergent views of Islam and between them, create a balanced perspective that helped me sort out the true religion from the corruption of the religion by fanatics. As a feminist with a strong interest in world religions, I felt I got a fair insight into the many ways one can regard Islam. It's rare for a book to combine chair-gripping suspense and important new insights and I highly recommend BEHIND THE BURQA to people of both genders and all religious backgrounds and affiliations.
Rating: 5
Summary: Surprise!!!
Comment: I picked up this book because I have great respect for Batya Swift Yasgur not because I was interested in the subject. I planned to skim it. I started reading at 9 pm and finished it in the wee hours of the next day. To my surprise it was a page turner. It was also well written which is often not the case with "as told to books" and the subject became fascinating to me.
I learned a great deal and only wish that she had another book on the shelves!
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Title: My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban: A Young Woman's Story by Latifa ISBN: 0786869011 Publisher: Miramax Pub. Date: 13 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Mayada, Daughter of Iraq: One Woman's Survival Under Saddam Hussein by Jean P. Sasson ISBN: 0525948112 Publisher: Dutton Books Pub. Date: 16 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Zoya's Story: An Afghan Woman's Struggle for Freedom by John Follain, Rita Cristofari ISBN: 0060097825 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 26 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Unveiled: Voices of Women in Afghanistan by Harriet Logan ISBN: 0060510870 Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Women for Afghan Women: Shattering Myths and Claiming the Future by Sunita Mehta ISBN: 1403960178 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: 04 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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