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2025: Love, family, religion and the decisions we make in pursuit of belonging.
Fundamentally
What you need to know before your trail
Nadia is an academic who’s been disowned by her puritanical mother and dumped by her lover, Rosy. She decides to make a getaway, accepting a UN job in Iraq. Tasked with rehabilitating ISIS women, Nadia becomes mired in the opaque world of international aid, surrounded by bumbling colleagues.
Sara is a precocious and sweary East Londoner who joined ISIS at just fifteen.
Nadia is struck by how similar they are: both feisty and opinionated, from a Muslim background, with a shared love of Dairy Milk and rude pick-up lines. A powerful friendship forms between the two women, until a secret confession from Sara threatens everything Nadia has been working for.
Travel Guide
Iraq
The situation changes in this country so much and so fast but the human suffering remains – and this is what this book captures so well. The issue with young girls running off to be ISIS brides, the work that the UN is doing there in the field and in the camps is all evoked here.
The author has experience of working in this international arena so this is a fascinating insight into that world.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Fundamentally
Destination/Location: Iraq Author: Nussaibah Younis Departure: 2025
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