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Wanted Women: Faith, Lies, and the War on Terror

Deborah Scroggins

Deborah Scroggins
Author
Halle Speaker Series
Thursday, February 23
Cox Hall Ballroom
Emory University 

As part of the Halle Speaker Series, Deborah Scroggins discussed her new book Wanted Women: Faith, Lies, and the War on Terror: The Lives of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui (HarperCollins, 2012) at Emory University on Thursday, February 23. The book is a riveting look at militant Islam, Muslim women’s rights, and the war on terror—brought into focus through two lives on opposite sides: critic of Islam Ayaan Hirsi Ali and religious extremist Aafia Siddiqui. Read the New York Times review >>


About Deborah Scroggins
Scroggins' first book, Emma’s War (Pantheon, 2002) won the Ridenhour Prize for Truth-telling and led to Scroggins being named Georgia Author of the Year. It has been translated into ten languages and optioned by Tony and Ridley Scott to be made into a major motion picture.

She has written for Vogue, Granta, The Nation, The Sunday Times Magazine and many other publications.  As a foreign correspondent for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, she won two Overseas Press Club Awards, a Sigma Delta Chi award, and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism award.

Scroggins is a graduate of Tulane University and Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. She was raised in Atlanta but now lives in Massachusetts with her husband, the writer Colin Campbell, and their two daughters.

Scroggins' visit was co-sponsored by the Institute of African Studies, the Development Studies program, the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies (MESAS), and the Student Coalition Empowering Emerging Nations (SCEEN).