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This book explores the idea of terrorism as represented in three contemporary American novels. Communist, religious, and environmental models of terrorism are given to account for the never-ending struggle between the strong nation-states and the marginalized groups that use terrorism as a way of resistance. Different methodologies that include cultural, civilizational, and psychoanalytical theories are used to describe the nature of terrorism in the selected novels. Don DeLillos Mao II (1992) is used along with Jurgen Habermass theory of the public sphere to account for the Maoist terrorism....

As a girl of thirteen in Baghdad, Saniha Amin Zaki, whenever she was outside her house was covered, head to foot, with a black robe and was accompanied by a member of her family. But at sixteen she was enrolled in the Medical College, not wearing the veil and attending classes with male students. Six years later, she was Iraq's first Muslim female doctor. This courageous break with cultural tradition was the first independent step in her long rich life. This is the fascinating personal account of a woman who grew up in Iraq in the 1920's, the early years of the country's freedom from the...