When her poised and sophisticated yuppie assistant at the Cairo bureau of the Wall Street Journal suddenly `adopted the uniform of a Muslim fundamentalist`, Geraldine Brooks set out to discover the truth about women and Islam.
Sometimes adopting a chador as camouflage, she was granted meetings (and often astonishingly intimate insights) by everyone from Queen Noor of Jordan to former Iranian President Rafsanjani`s daughter. She met with Palestinians protesting about `honour killings` for adultery and sheltered girls transformed into warriors by the Emirates` armed forces. Throughout the Middle East, Brooks was invited into the homes and lives of these women where she found real stories that overturn western stereotypes.
Fair-minded and often revelatory, Nine Parts of Desire is an extraordinarily rich tapestry of the different lives women lead under Islam, and a captivating and diverse portrait of a little known world.

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Geraldine Brooks is the author of Year of Wonders and the non-fiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. Previously, Brooks was a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, stationed in Bosnia, Somalia, and the Middle East.