Guest House For Young Widows. Among The Women Of Isis

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Random House
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2019
Edition: First Edition

Description: 338 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Guest House for Young Widows charts the different ways women were recruited, inspired, or compelled to join the militants. Emma from Hamburg, Sharmeena and three high school friends from London, Nour, a religious dropout from Tunis: all found rebellion or community in political Islam and fell prey to sophisticated propaganda that promised them a cosmopolitan adventure and a chance to forge an ideal Islamic community where they could live devoutly without fear of stigma or repression. It wasnt long before the militants exposed themselves as little more than violent criminals, more obsessed with power than the tenets of Islam, and the women of ISIS were stripped of any agency, perpetually widowed and remarried, and ultimately trapped in a brutal, lawless society. The fall of the caliphate only brought new challenges to women no state wanted to reclaim. Moavenis sensitivity and reporting makes these forgotten women indelible and illuminates the turbulent politics that set them on their paths.

ISBN: 9780399179754