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Undertoad · 07-16-2003, 10:48 AM

http://ishtartalking.blogspot.com/

Three posts so far, and all of them absolutely astonishing... first-person accounts of a woman's life in Iraq.

For a brief while a few years ago, before I thought about the middle east, I worked with a first-generation Iranian immigrant woman. Not only was she a great consultant, she dressed every day to the hilt, fashionable but also feminine. Now I think maybe she dressed like that because she understood what it was like not to be allowed to. Given a free culture she took every advantage. Makes me feel like an underachiever here in my t-shirt and shorts and sandals.

07-16-2003, 10:48 AM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	What it's like to be a woman in Iraq http://ishtartalking.blogspot.com/ Three posts so far, and all of them absolutely astonishing... first-person accounts of a woman's life in Iraq. For a brief while a few years ago, before I thought about the middle east, I worked with a first-generation Iranian immigrant woman. Not only was she a great consultant, she dressed every day to the hilt, fashionable but also feminine. Now I think maybe she dressed like that because she understood what it was like not to be allowed to. Given a free culture she took every advantage. Makes me feel like an underachiever here in my t-shirt and shorts and sandals.