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"Despite the restrictive customs of Saudi's religious rule, Ahmed found a vibrancy that left her hopeful. 'Saudi is much more heterogeneous than one would expect, ' she says. 'Muslims themselves feel fairly lost in a country so caricatured and vilified for its severe austerity and Wahhabi theocracy, but it's also the cradle of Islam and the site of the Hajj-a symbol of what Islam could be.'"
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This is the story of both the terrifying and electrifying journey of Dr. Qanta Ahmed, a Pakistani Muslim woman, trained in four medical specialties in the United States, and her personal two-year quest and journey deep into the Islamic world of Saudi Arabia. For two years, she worked in one of the world s most modern hospitals, in a society where women are not only not allowed to drive cars, but cannot wear seatbelts because they make their breasts more prominent. She evokes lands more exotic than she could ever imagine, and the moments where she finds tenderness and beauty where she would least expect it, at the tattered, curled edges of extremism. Towards the end, the reader joins Dr. Ahmed and two and a half million other Muslims on a Hajj, an electrifying and deeply moving pilgrimage to Mecca. As Azar Nafisi brings alive what it means to live in Iran in Reading Lolita Tehran, Qanta Ahmed reveals the mysteries that shroud the exotic and strange world of Saudi Arabia.
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"Despite the restrictive customs of Saudi's religious rule, Ahmed found a vibrancy that left her hopeful. 'Saudi is much more heterogeneous than one would expect, ' she says. 'Muslims themselves feel fairly lost in a country so caricatured and vilified for its severe austerity and Wahhabi theocracy, but it's also the cradle of Islam and the site of the Hajj-a symbol of what Islam could be.'"
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This is the story of both the terrifying and electrifying journey of Dr. Qanta Ahmed, a Pakistani Muslim woman, trained in four medical specialties in the United States, and her personal two-year quest and journey deep into the Islamic world of Saudi Arabia. For two years, she worked in one of the world s most modern hospitals, in a society where women are not only not allowed to drive cars, but cannot wear seatbelts because they make their breasts more prominent. She evokes lands more exotic than she could ever imagine, and the moments where she finds tenderness and beauty where she would least expect it, at the tattered, curled edges of extremism. Towards the end, the reader joins Dr. Ahmed and two and a half million other Muslims on a Hajj, an electrifying and deeply moving pilgrimage to Mecca. As Azar Nafisi brings alive what it means to live in Iran in Reading Lolita Tehran, Qanta Ahmed reveals the mysteries that shroud the exotic and strange world of Saudi Arabia.
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