The National Jewish Book Council (NJBC) announced on January 15, 2014 its 2013 awards for books in several categories. Dr. Phyllis Chesler’s memoir, An American Bride in Kabul published by Palgrave Macmillan won The Krauss Family Award in Memory of Simon & Shulamith (Sofi) Goldberg in the category of Biography, Autobiography and Memoir. We reviewed Dr. Chesler’s memoir in the January 2014 New English Review edition, Flight from an Afghan Seraglio. In our introduction to the review we noted: This reviewer had first heard the elements of this memoir over a decade ago from the author. Like many others who had, we urged her to record this fascinating encounter with Islamic gender apartheid that had endangered her life in Afghanistan. Chesler subsequently wrote limited treatments of the episode in a chapter of her book, The Death of Feminism: What’s Next in the Struggle for Women’s Freedom and a Middle East Quarterly article in 2006, “How Afghan Captivity Shaped my Feminism.” The NJBC award to Dr. Chesler recognizes the promise of those encouraging remarks made a decade ago. Also see our Interview with the author, An American Feminist Fighting Sharia in the January 2014 edition. We extend our congratulations to Dr. Chesler and her family. We hope with the NJBC award for An American Bride in Kabul it will become a breakthrough book to educate Americans on the problematic values, practices and attitudes towards women in Islamic cultures. Dr. Chesler’s award will be conferred on March 6, 2014 at the New York City –based, Center for Jewish History.
Posted on: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 00:45:46 +0000
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