Showing Sisters in War: A Story of Love, Family, and Survival in the New Iraq by Christina Asquith

HardCover. Pub the Date: September. 2009 Pages: 352 in Publisher by: Random House Caught up in a terrifying war. Facing choices of life and death. Two Iraqi sisters take us into the hidden world of women's lives under U.S. occupation. Through their powerful story of love and betrayal. interwoven with the stories of a Palestinian American women's rights activist and a US soldier. journalist Christina Asquith explores one of the great untold sagas of the Iraq war: the attempt to ing women's rights to Iraq. and the consequences for all those involved. On the heels of the invasion. twenty-two-year-old Zia accepts a job inside the US headquarters in Baghdad. trusting that democracy will shield her burgeoning romance with an American contractor from the disapproval of her fellow Iraqis. But as resistance to the US occupation intensifies. Zia and her sister. Nunu. a university stud...