Wanted Women PB

"Scroggins illuminates not only the disconnect between the West's often one-dimensional perception of Islam and its multifaceted reality but the schisms within Islam itself. This meticulously researched, skillfully narrated account offers a nuanced look at political Islam and the "war on terror" through the eyes of two women on the front lines -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

The author of Emma's War offers a compelling account of the link between Muslim women's rights, Islamist opposition to the West, and the Global War on Terror, as explored through the experiences of two fascinating champions from opposing sides of the conflict: Islam critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali and neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui.

With Emma's War: An Aid Worker, A Warlord, Radical Islam and the Politics of Oil, journalist Deborah Scroggins achieved major international acclaim; now, in Wanted Women, Scroggins again exposes a crucial untold story from the center of an ongoing ideological war--laying bare the sexual and cultural stereotypes embraced by both sides of a conflict that threatens to engulf the world.

Author: Deborah Scroggins
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 01/08/2013
Pages: 576
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.35w x 0.98d
ISBN: 9780060898984

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 01/06/2013 pg. 24

About the Author
Scroggins, Deborah: -

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.