Showing Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks

Paperback. Pub Date: 2007 Pages: 272 Publisher: Penguin the When her Poised and Sophisticated yuppie assistant at the Cairo bureau of the Wall Street Journal suddenly 'adopted the Uniform of a Muslim fundamentalist'. Geraldine ooks Set out to discover the truth about women and Islam. Sometimes adopting a chador as camouflage. she was granted meetings (and often astonishingly intimate insights) by everyone from Queen Noor of Jordan to former Iranian President Rafsanjani's daughter. She met with Palestinians protesting about 'honour killings' for adultery and sheltered girls transformed into warriors by the Emirates' armed forces. Throughout the Middle East. ooks was invited into the homes and lives of these women where she found real stories that overturn western stereotypes. Fair-minded and often revelatory. Nine Parts of Desire is an extraordinarily rich tapestry of the dif...