epub |eng | | Author:Deborah Scroggins

Chapter Twenty-two Relentless police work and international intelligence resulted in the roundup of more and more people in KSM’s network and related groups. In June, the police arrested Ramzi Yousef’s ...

epub |eng | 2009-02-01 | Author:Ankerberg, John & Caner, Emir [Ankerberg, John]

17 Does Islam allow polygamy, concubines, and temporary marriages? Ye are never able to do justice between wives even if it is your ardent desire: but turn not away (from ...

epub |eng | 2010-10-12 | Author:Shelina Janmohamed [Janmohamed, Shelina]

Hijab Marks the Spot It was an average Tuesday at work. In the office our row of desks looked out of the full-height glass windows of the fifth floor. We ...

epub |eng | 2014-09-15 | Author:Jenny Nordberg [Nordberg, Jenny]

IN HER NEW domestic life, the sudden restrictions on movement bothered Shukria—as a newlywed, it took time to grasp the fact that she could not leave the house when she ...

epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:Nonie Darwish

Child rearing: American parents’ traditional upbringing standards are also very different. First of all, they instill in their children—boys and girls equally—the American values of respect, thrift, hard work, and ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1995-11-10 | Author:Geraldine Brooks [Brooks, Geraldine]

Later that year the king’s democratic initiative bore fruit in an election that left Islamic hard-liners dominating the Parliament. Just before the election, a delegation of liberal-minded Jordanians had come ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Ayaan Hirsi Ali [Ali, Ayaan Hirsi]

6. Thou shalt not kill. There are a few religious fanatics around who will want to kill me because I have become an atheist, and because—by killing me—they will secure ...

epub |eng | 2003-12-29 | Author:Azar Nafisi

9 The meeting with Mrs. Rezvan had thrown me off balance. She was like an intermediary pleading on behalf of an unfaithful and unforgotten lover, pledging complete loyalty in return ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-12 | Author:Love in a Headscarf

The first thing I decided to do was something that nice girls didn’t do. I decided to climb a mountain, a very big mountain. Kilimanjaro to be exact, the highest ...

epub |eng | 2007-04-09 | Author:Deborah Rodriguez [Rodriguez, Deborah]

AFTER I LIT MY CIGARETTE, I waved the match around in the air to put it out, but it continued to flame. So I touched it to a bead of ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-02-25 | Author:Qanta Ahmed

WAHABI WRATH EVERYONE STOPPED EATING. THE AIR was pregnant with fear. Across from me, I watched Alon, a visiting professor from Johns Hopkins, turn sallow as all color drained from ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-04-24 | Author:SAIMA WAHAB [WAHAB, SAIMA]

NINETEEN Outside Jalalabad a handful of big refugee camps languished on the desert plain that extends into Pakistan. Without plumbing, heat, or electricity, they were bursting with tens of thousands ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-28 | Author:Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

7 An Unexpected Wedding Party The babies had been crying all night. Sleepless, overworked, and worried about the health of her twin girls, Malika was tempted to collapse onto her ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1995-01-02 | Author:Geraldine Brooks

Later that year the king’s democratic initiative bore fruit in an election that left Islamic hard-liners dominating the Parliament. Just before the election, a delegation of liberal-minded Jordanians had come ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2004-01-02 | Author:Ayaan Hirsi Ali

6. Thou shalt not kill. There are a few religious fanatics around who will want to kill me because I have become an atheist, and because—by killing me—they will secure ...