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From
royalty to rebels, from professional women to peasants, Price of
Honor takes us into the hearts and homes of Muslim women. With devastating
candor, these women relate the increasingly oppressive politics
that govern their personal lives. They live in a world where women
are confined, forbidden to work or be educated because of men's
"code of honor." Goodwin's interviews and reports include a princess
who talks about her life as the sixteenth wife of a sheikh; a grandmother
who was arrested and whipped eighty times when a lock of her hair
slipped from under her veil; women who are raped and then imprisoned
for "fornication"; doctors who perform hymen-restoration surgery
on women about to be wed because nonvirgins may be killed by male
relatives.
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Afghanistan
Diary is a provocative introduction to the recent history of the
troubled country since the Mujahideen capture of Kabul in 1992.
Documentary photographer Edward Grazda witnessed firsthand this
hugely transformative period in modern Afghan history, from the
destruction of the capital city five years into a ruinous civil
war between Mujahideen factions, to their defeat by the Pakistani-supported
Taliban militia, whose radical interpretation of Islamic law--and
its draconian enforcement--is unarguably the most extreme in the
Islamic world.
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Because the Taliban rulers of Kabul, Afghanistan, impose strict limitations on women's freedom and behavior, eleven-year-old Parvana must disguise herself as a boy so that her family can survive after her father's arrest. |
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This book covers not just the Taliban, but also the geo-politics of the region and controversial issues such as Islamic fundamentalism, Osama Bin Laden, the Taliban's treatment of women, the drug trade, and the oil politics of Central Asia. |
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To oppose the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 the United States formed an extraordinary anti-communist alliance with militant Islamic forces in South Asia. In this controversial book John Cooley provides the first behind-the-scenes account of this alliance and of how the CIA planned and ran the holy war in Afghanistan. |
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This guide offers an introduction to Islam both as a religion and as a political-economic force. It tells the story of Muhammad - and the rise of Islam; outlines the sacred book, the Koran; explains "the five pillars of faith"; explores the interplay between religion and government; describes the differences that divide Islam; and, above all, shows the influence of Islam on world affairs. This second revised edition provides crucial new material on the Islamic community today, including discussion of the Gulf War and the Salman Rushdie affair; the rise and ebb of fundamentalist fervor in Iran, Algeria, and elsewhere; and the relationships among different factions of the Islamic faith. |
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Who
is Osama bin Laden ? What drives him and those he leads to hate a
West that helped educate, enrich, and arm them? In meticulous detail,
terrorism expert Yossef Bodansky uncovers the events in bin Laden's
life that turned the once-promising engineering student into a cold-blooded
leader of radical Islam. Including new information about bin Laden's
pursuit of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, covert deals
between the U.S. and Islamic terrorists, and American foreign policy
blunders that have cost countless lives, this book is a sobering wake-up
call. |
