This translation from Arabic to English of the novel, Threshold Women, by the Iraqi novelist, Hadiya Hussein, is based on flashbacks of events from the past, remembered by Amal Mustafa, the protagonist and the narrator of the novel while she is travelling in a taxi in her way to Baghdad from Amman in Jordan during the second Gulf War.
This translation from Arabic to English of the novel, Threshold Women, by the Iraqi novelist, Hadiya Hussein, is based on flashbacks of events from the past, remembered by Amal Mustafa, the protagonist and the narrator of the novel while she is travelling in a taxi in her way to Baghdad from Amman in Jordan during the second Gulf War.