Salma has committed a crime punishable by death among her Bedouin tribe: she had sex out of wedlock and became pregnant. To save her from the honor killing waiting for her at the hands of her tribe,
Najwa's father left when she was four years old. Now, upon her mother's death, she cannot live alone in the Islamic society of Jordan. She must find her father. Her search takes her through new danger
To complement the novels in Garnet’s award-winning Arab Women Writers series, In the House of Silence is a collection of autobiographical writings by thirteen leading Arab women authors. Through these
