The Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS Audiobook (Free)

A gripping account of thirteen ladies who joined, endured, and, in some cases, escaped lifestyle in the Islamic State-based about years of immersive reporting with a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

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Among the many books trying to comprehend the terrifying rise of ISIS, non-e has given tone of voice to the ladies in the about The Visitor House for Teen Widows: Among the ladies of ISIS organization; but women had been essential to the establishment of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s caliphate.

Responding to guarantees of feminine empowerment and cultural justice, and phone calls to assist the plight of fellow Muslims in Syria, thousands of females emigrated from america and Europe, Russia and Central Asia, from across North Africa and all of those other Middle East to join the Islamic State. We were holding the educated daughters of diplomats, trainee doctors, teens with straight-A averages, as well as working-class drifters and desolate housewives, plus they joined forces to create makeshift clinics and universities for the Islamic homeland they’d envisioned. Visitor House for Teen Widows charts the different ways women were recruited, inspired, or compelled to become listed on the militants. Emma from Hamburg, Sharmeena and three senior high school friends from London, and Nour, a religious dropout from Tunis: All found rebellion or community in political Islam and dropped prey to advanced propaganda that promised them a cosmopolitan experience and a chance to forge an ideal Islamic community in which they could live devoutly without fear of stigma or repression.

It wasn’t long before the militants exposed themselves as little more than violent thieves,more enthusiastic about power compared to the tenets of Islam, and the ladies of ISIS had been stripped of any agency, perpetually widowed and remarried, and eventually trapped in a brutal, lawless society. Nov the caliphate only brought new challenges to women no state wanted to reclaim.

Azadeh Moaveni’s beautiful sensitivity and demanding confirming make these neglected ladies indelible and illuminate the turbulent politics that established them on the paths.