In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom (Audiobook)
In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom (Audiobook) By Qanta A. Ahmed, read by Nicola Barber
Unabridged edition 2012 | 14 hours and 45 mins | ISBN: 1455883034 | MP3 64 kbps | 429 MB
Unabridged edition 2012 | 14 hours and 45 mins | ISBN: 1455883034 | MP3 64 kbps | 429 MB
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.