Neko~chan’s Reviews > Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS > Status Update

Can’t really defend Nour here lol

This book is going to wreck me emotionally I think

So interesting to read after Snow. The west really doesn’t understand the secularism vs religion debates in the Middle East. I’ve always associated secularism with rebellion (which is how it is in the European world), so the reverse of it — and how repressiveness necessarily pushes people to extremism — is so interesting