Dimensions
160 x 228 x 38mm
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, author of the New York Times bestseller Infidel, was a Somali-born member of parliament in the Netherlands who became a fierce critic of Islam and a champion of the West. Her courage in the face of Islamist death threats made her an idol to millions of Westerners.
Aafia Siddiqui was an American-educated scientist and radical Islamist wanted by the FBI for her ties to al-Qaeda, and whose alleged imprisonment by the CIA turned her into a heroine to millions of Muslims.
Moving effortlessly through time, Deborah Scroggins follows the two women from their childhoods in Africa and Pakistan, to their first encounters with the West, to the choices each ultimately made to become a leading figure in the War on Terror.
