This is a journalistic report on various aspects of women's lives in the Middle East. Geraldine Brooks is a journalist who has covered the Middle East region during some of the most inflamed moments in recent history, including during Desert Storm. In this account, she gives a fairly balanced, nuanced view of the lives of women living in Saudi Arabia, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, the occupied territories, and other countries. I especially enjoyed the accounts of her own experiences traveling in the region, a personal touch that wouldn't have been possible in strict journalism.

Released on Sunday, August 25, 2002 at Macalester College at Grand and Snelling in Saint Paul, Minnesota USA.

At the entrance to Weyerhaeuser Administrative Building.

I ment to just read acouple pages of this book, but found myself completly engrossed in it. The inside look at the life and sexuality of Islamic women is facinating as is the philosophy behind their oppression. I am looking forward to reading the second half as I have not looked forward to finishing the second half of a book in along time. The only bad part about this book is that I just started classes and I am neglecting my homework to read it, but I just can not put it down.

I finished "Nine Parts of Desire" what a wonderful book !! As a women I have always worried about what was going on behind the'curtain' of Islam, and this book gave me an eyefull of a hidden society. A society full of the complexity of family, honor, war, pride, pain and love. The lives of women are never easy, and the lives of Islamic women are as Western women full of hard decisions. Geraldine Brooks gives her reader wonderfully even handed look at Islam through the eyes of its hidden half. She has opened my heart and prayer to the plight of these women. Read this and you will hear the news of Afganistan and Saudi Arabia through the women that live the horrors we only see on T.V.