· Honor Lost: Love and Death in Modern-Day Jordan. by Norma Khouri. Author Norma Khouri and her friend Dalia were like sisters. Since the age of three they were inseparable, sharing in all the childhood joys that a modern, middle-class life in Amman, Jordan, had to offer. HONOR LOST: Love and Death in Modern-Day Jordan. Norma Khouri, Author. Atria $24 (p) ISBN The timeless tragedy of Shakespeare's star . pages ; 21 cm. The author exposes the practice of honor killing in Jordan through the story of her friend Dalia, an Arabian Muslim living with her family in Amman who was stabbed to death by her father in for her chaste association with Michael, a major in User Interaction Count:
Honor Lost: Love And Death In Modern Day Jordan by Norma Khouri The India of the Britush Raj may seem a world away from Jordan in the 21st century but MM Kaye's astute comparisons of the way in which the different characters think, including their instinctive attitudes to "telling the truth" seem to echo here. In Norma Khouri's memoir, Honor Lost: Love and Death in Modern-Day Jordan, she reveals how her best friend was murdered by her own father because she loved a man who was not Muslim, like herself, but Christian. Their love was never consummated, but the father, under pressure from Muslim tradition, carried out his daughter's execution and never. Which she did in her bestselling book, Forbidden Love (also known as Honor Lost: Love and Death in Modern-Day Jordan), and subsequent publicity tour, presenting herself to sympathetic audiences.
Honor Lost: Love and Death in Modern-Day Jordan. by Norma Khouri. Author Norma Khouri and her friend Dalia were like sisters. Since the age of three they were inseparable, sharing in all the childhood joys that a modern, middle-class life in Amman, Jordan, had to offer. pages ; 21 cm. The author exposes the practice of honor killing in Jordan through the story of her friend Dalia, an Arabian Muslim living with her family in Amman who was stabbed to death by her father in for her chaste association with Michael, a major in the Royal Army, and a Catholic. Access-restricted-item. After September 11, many Americans reasonably concluded that, when it came to oppressing women, the Taliban were as bad as they come. Norma Khouri’s new memoir, Honor Lost: Love and Death in Modern-Day Jordan (Atria Books, pp., $24), suggests that we might want to revisit the subject. The Taliban, it seems, were just more unapologetic practitioners of a kind of misogyny that is rampant throughout the Arab and Muslim world.
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