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...book My Lost Son is as much her own story as it is Moussaoui's. It tells the tale of an unhappy 14-year-old forced into marriage in Morocco; of the sociopathic husband who brought her to France and then brutalized her and the children until they fled for their lives; and of el-Wafi's efforts to embrace the opportunities offered in France to create a stable, promising life for her kids. In short, it follows el-Wafi's path from illiterate captive to independent, self-sufficient woman...
...Continental Army general was a hero early in the Revolutionary War but switched sides and plotted to deliver to the British the fort at West Point, N.Y.--where he was commander. He fled and joined the British army before he could be tried for treason...
...using violence to force Afghan women into the burqa. It is happening again. In Iran, educated women who fail some sort of veil test are being imprisoned by their oppressors. Saudi women under their body sheets long to show themselves and share the world equally with men. Exiles who fled such practices to seek refuge in Europe now find the evil is following them. As a female lawyer from Saudi Arabia once said to me: "The Koran does not ask us to bury ourselves. We must be modest. These fools who are taking niqab will one day suffocate like...
...lute-based chaabi music of Algeria's casbahs and cafés; in Algiers. Weaving themes from traditional love songs with mystical Sufi texts, Guerrouabi's shortened, jazzy renditions of classical chaabi tunes played to massive crowds in Europe and the Arab world. During Algeria's turbulent 1990s, he fled into exile in Paris, but homesickness and ill health drove him to return in 2004; weakened by diabetes, he played his final concert last summer in Algiers...
...Number of Iraqi families who fled their homes to escape sectarian violence and registered, as of August, with the Iraqi government as refugees. The number of registered refugee families was up from 27,000 the previous month...