Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born former member of the Dutch Parliament and the author of the international bestseller Infidel, was raised as a Muslim fundamentalist in Kenya. A feminist, political analyst, writer, and fierce critic of her former religion, she champions the West in what she insists must be a war against Islam. Hirsi Ali's personal tale of courage in the face of constant threats from violent, fanatic enemies has won the admiration of millions in America and around the world.Aafia Siddiqui, a native of Pakistan, moved to the United States to pursue a doctorate in neuroscience. A decade later, she returned to Pakistan, where her involvement with al-Qaeda, including her marriage to one of the 9/11 plotters, led the CIA to regard her as one of the most dangerous terrorists in the world. Her disappearance, capture, and conviction in a New York City courtroom for attempted murder have earned her, too, admiration across the globe—from millions of radical Islamists.Award-winning author and journalist Deborah Scroggins weaves a provocative true-life thriller from two separate but strangely parallel lives in a time of bitter battle.
Autor: | Scroggins Deborah |
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ISBN: | 9780060898984 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Verlag: | Harper Collins |
Veröffentlicht: | 15.01.2013 |
Untertitel: | Faith, Lies, and the War on Terror: The Lives of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui |
Schlagworte: | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Political BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Religious HISTORY: Middle East / Iraq HISTORY: Middle East / Israel & Palestine HISTORY: Military / Iraq War (2003-2011) ISLAMIC STUDIES: GENDER & WOMEN'S STUDIES ISLAMIC STUDIES: HISTORY & POLITICS RELIGION: Eastern RELIGION: History RELIGION: Islam / History |
Deborah Scroggins is the author of Emma's War, which was translated into ten languages and won the Ridenhour Truth-Telling Prize. Scroggins has written for the Sunday Times Magazine, The Nation, Vogue, Granta, and many other publications, and she won two Overseas Press Club awards and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award as a foreign correspondent for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She divides her time between Barnstable, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C.