Record details

• ISBN: 9781402210877
• ISBN: 1402210876
• Physical Description: 454 pages ; 23 cm
• Publisher: Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks, Inc., [2008]
• Copyright: ©2008

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-446).

Formatted Contents Note:

The Bedouin bedside -- A time to leave America -- My new home, a military compound -- Abbayah shopping -- Invisible and safe -- Saudi women who dance alone -- Veiled doctors -- The lost boys of the kingdom -- A father's grieving -- An invitation to God -- The epicenter of Islam -- Into the light -- The child of God -- The million-man wheel -- Committing Haram -- Calling Doctora -- Daughters of the desert -- Next stop: absolution -- Prayer under the stars -- Between the devil and the Red Sea -- Mutawaeen: the men in brown -- Single Saudi male -- The calm before the storm -- Wahabi wrath -- Doctor Zhivago of Arabia -- Love in the kingdom -- Show me your marriage license! -- An eye for an eye -- Princes, polygamists, and paupers -- Divorce, Saudi-style -- The Saudi Divorcée -- Desperate housewives -- The making of a female Saudi surgeon -- The hot mamma -- The Gloria Steinem of Arabia -- Champion of children -- 9/11 in Saudi Arabia -- Final moments, final days -- Rugged glory -- Reading group guide.

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Subject:

Ahmed, Qanta.
Women physicians > Islamic countries > Biography.
Women in medicine > Islamic countries > Biography.
Muslim physicians > Islamic countries > Biography.

Genre:

Autobiographies.