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Christina Asquith has 2 past events. (show) Christina Asquith Christina Asquith discusses Sisters in War: A Story of Love, Family, and Survival in the New Iraq. Christina will discuss the plight of women living and serving in Iraq and offer some ideas on how women's rights and Islam might be reconciled. Afterwards, Asquith will be available to sign copies of her new book, Sisters in War: A Story of Love, Family, and Survival in the New Iraq. Christina Asquith went to Baghdad on assignment in 2003 and spent two years reporting from the front lines. By fall 2004, as the insurgency strengthened, all journalists living in Baghdad were under death threat. Two of Asquith's Iraqi girlfriends agreed to hide her in their Baghdad house for safety. Living with an Iraqi family gave her an up-close look at how the war had affected their lives: they had little electricity or water, lived in constant fear of mortar attack or suicide bomb, and while women had walked the streets freely under Saddam, they could no longer leave home unaccompanied by a man and were forced to veil or risk being groped or killed. From this experience, Asquith decided to follow their lives and write Sisters in War. (phoenixbooksvt)… (more)
Christina Asquith Christina Asquith reads from Sisters in War: A Story of Love, Family, and Survival in the New Iraq . This elegant narrative chronicles the lives of four women who experienced elation, hope and disappointment following the American invasion of Iraq and the fall of Saddam in 2003. Two Iraqi sisters glimpse a new life following years of oppression: Zia is fluent in English and obtains a job inside the Green Zone working for the Americans; Nunu, the younger and more timid sister, struggles to complete college in the increasingly dangerous urban environment. Asquith (The Emergency Teacher) deftly details the arduousness of establishing women's centers and getting women elected to office through her profile of Heather, once a wonky bureaucrat turned U.S. Army reservist, who must confront sexism within both the U.S. military and the unfamiliar Muslim culture. Lastly is Manal, a women's rights and antiwar activist born in America of Palestinian parents, who struggles to put aside her politics in the interests of helping Iraqi women succeed with the establishment of women's centers. Deftly chronicled by Asquith, who spent two years in Baghdad reporting from the front lines, this informative narrative offers readers a seldom heard female perspective into the everyday lives, struggles, disappointments and triumphs of four women during this chaotic and dangerous time. (bookconscious)… (more)
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