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Wanted Women is the extraordinary tale of two women and their opposing roles in the War on Terror. Award-winning journalist Deborah Scroggins recounts the lives of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born former member of parliament in the Netherlands and fierce critic of Islam, and Aafia Siddiqui, an American-educated Pakistani scientist with ties to al-Qaeda who is currently in prison in the U.S. Both Hirsi Ali and Siddiqi grew up in a world where women''s lives were restricted by religion and cultural tradition. And each came to assert her own individuality, albeit in radically different ways, becoming living symbols of the worldviews they embraced. Wanted Women is a riveting examination of the crossroads between women''s rights, Islamic fundamentalism, and misconceptions about women and warfare that are still prevalent in both Western and Muslim society. Deborah Scroggins is a journalist and author. She holds a masters degree in international affairs from Columbia University. Her first book, Emma''s War: An Aid Worker, a Warlord, Radical Island, and the Politics of Oil, was translated into ten languages and is being made into a major motion picture. Scroggins was a foreign correspondent for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and has written for Vogue, Granta, The Nation, the Sunday Times Magazine, and many other publications. She is married and has two daughters.
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Deborah Scroggins is the author of Emma's War, which was translated into ten languages and won the Ridenhour Truth-Telling Prize. Scroggins has written for the Sunday Times Magazine, The Nation, Vogue, Granta, and many other publications, and she won two Overseas Press Club awards and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award as a foreign correspondent for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She divides her time between Barnstable, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C.
