Category: Women

June 18, 2010

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Aza Nafisi *** (of 4)

Nafiisi believes democracy can only succeed in conjunction with a fundamental human right to imagination. She demonstrates its value by documenting the deteriorating lives of...

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June 17, 2010

Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village by Elizabeth W. Farnea ** (of 4)

In the late 1950’s Elizabeth Farnea’s new husband traveled to a small rural village in southern Iraq to do graduate research on an irrigation project....

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May 15, 2010

The Help by Kathryn Stockett **** (of 4)

The characters in this book – racist, southern white women in the early sixties and the black maids that work for them – are so...

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April 30, 2010

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini *** (of 4)

A bottomless well of hopelessness, despair and background warfare in Afghanistan from the Soviet invasion of the 80s through the American invasion post 9/11. Seen...

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