History & Politics

If you consider yourself a feminist or a human rights activist, you must read this book. Isobel Coleman goes inside the lives of everyday women in the Middle East and dispels our myths about the stereotypical woman from that region. Coleman interviews women on the front lines of human rights work and shows them to be the future leaders of the world, not helpless victims of circumstance. —Adrienne Mages

After visiting Rwanda and seeing first hand the ongoing atrocities in 2006, Alice Walker was stunned by the violence disproportionately suffered by women and children. Since then she has joined forces with Code Pink to bear witness in the Gaza Strip. In this book, she details the experiences of the women and children caught in a war zone. With eloquence, precision, and rage, Walker paints a stunning portrait of pain while voicing the resilience and beauty of those who have survived. —Adrienne Mages