Uncompromised: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of an Arab-American Patriot in the CIA - Paperback

from acornell

Uncompromised: The Rise and Fall and Redemption of an Arab American Patriot in the CIA is Nada Prouty's very personal story of her young life in war-torn Lebanon and her immigration to the US to begin a new life for herself. The rise of her life as a CIA agent is the first 225 pages of the book a...

from LivelyLady

Prouty has uncovered her life in this memoir. It begins and gives reference to the mid-eastern's attitude toward women as second class citizens. Her father's treatment of Prouty and her sisters as contrasted with her one brother is criminal. Actually, her dysfunctional father should be locked up....

from Carolee888

'Uncompromised' opens with a M16 being shoved into Nada Prouty's face while she was on a secret mission for the CIA in Bagdad. How did she get there? She started out as one of the verbally abused and beaten daughter of a Lebanese family. She was raised as a Druze, a religion that combines Christi...

from agnesmack

This was a really interesting book that definitely kept the pages turning. The author was simply trying to serve the country that she'd grown to love, but our government sure did make it difficult for her. Overall I found the writing to be fine, but it felt like the end was a little rushed. About...

from cvanhasselt

Prouty's book explains in vivid detail what it means to be a woman in a traditional Arab culture. Prouty is of Lebanese Druze heritage is different from the predominant Muslim Arab culture, yet remarkably similar in its discrimination against women. Her own family was a blatantly and recklessly d...