Word: womans
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...video of an Afghanistan woman facing death threats for speaking...
...where she wakes at 5 A.M., slips out of the house, enters the huge shed in the yard and, still in her pajamas, climbs the ladder to the top of the stainless steel tanks to begin brewing beer. A graduate of Hellenic College, Boston, Khoury, 24, is the only woman brewer - or brewster - in the Middle East. She is being groomed by her family to take over the Taybeh brewery, home of the only Palestinian beer...
...couple of years ago, he was shot at and someone tried to burn down a new commercial center he was constructing. In 2005, 14 homes were torched and the brewery nearly destroyed when a mob descended on Taybeh after a love affair between a Taybeh man and a Muslim woman from the neighboring village...
...Herta Müller is the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature, the Swedish Academy announced today. The academy describes Müller as a writer "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed." She is the 12th woman to win the prize in its 109-year history...
Since then Müller has published more than 20 books, both fiction and poetry. She revisits persistently, almost obsessively, her earlier life in Romania and her experience of political oppression. The Land of Green Plums describes the fate of a young woman from the country who attends a Romanian university. Over the course of the novel - it's narrated by one of her roommates - Lola is politically harassed and sexually traumatized, and finally she hangs herself. The title refers to the unripe plums that the city's ogreish police officers steal and eat as they roam the streets...