SISTERS IN WAR(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　Christina Asquith was born in New York City and was educated
at Boston University and the London School of Economics. A
journalist for more than a decade, she has written for The New
York Times, The Economist, The Christian Science Monitor, and
The Guardian, and she was a staff writer at The
Philadelphia Inquirer. She lives with her husband and their
daughter in Burlington, Vermont.

　　“A rare, beautifully written insight into the haunting ways in
which women have been affected by the conflict.”
　　– The Financial Times
　　“Sisters in War is a brilliant, powerful and convincing story of
three women from the same Iraqi family. . .It is not only a story
of  women fighting for  their liberated lifestyles. It is
a story of Islamic traditions, religion, politics and power versus
American lifestyle, American power and American belief.”
　　-The Feminist Review
　　“Few books capture the complexity and diversity of Muslim women
and the varying views on their place in Islam as Sisters in War: A
Story of Love, Family, and Survival in the New Iraq by journalist
Christina Asquith. A true page-turner.”
　　– Altmuslimah
　　 “Journalist Asquith went into hiding with a Baghdadi family she
had befriended, and investigated what life meant for Iraqi women.
She also immersed herself in the lives of a few Americans who
remained there, devoted to creating at least small solutions to the
massive problems of local women, both new and historical. Sisters
in War is the formidable fruit of her reporting.”
　　– Slate
　　Asquith has won admiration from many feminists and Iraqi
activists for exposing this struggle. Her resounding message is
that a country committed to ensuring the needs, success and
prosperity of women is a country worth fighting for.”
　　– Roll Call, 09.2009
　　“Christina Asquith has written a brilliant book, extraordinary in
concept and execution, the most intimate and moving portrait I have
read of the early American disaster in Iraq. It is a shifting and
powerful portrait of disillusionment seen through the hopeful eyes
of American and Iraqi women colliding with the hard realities of
religion, politics, power, and morality in a traditional society.
Sometimes, to see a thing fresh, we need to look at it from a
different vantage. Asquith’s young women, from the courageous and
committed American feminists to their Iraqi counterparts, who must
cope with cultural constraints their new Western friends can hardly
imagine, are all victims of the criminal arrogance and na?veté of
the U.S. occupation. This is a work of reporting and writing that
will last.”—Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down
　　“Christina Asquith’s de*ion of the wild incompetence–and
dedication– of early American efforts in Iraq reads like a great
novel but with the added weight of history. And her focus on women,
both American and Iraqi, makes this book uniquely valuable among
the many on this long war. Asquith is a fine writer and, clearly, a
very brave reporter. She has filled in several crucial pieces of
the Iraq puzzle, and done it beautifully.”—Sebastian Junger, author
of The Perfect Storm