My Accidental Jihad (CD-Audio)

from BettyTaylor56

Having traveled a lot in the Middle East, I enjoy books related to the region. In this memoir, Krisat Bremer actually had two cultures to adapt to -- her husband's Muslim culture and the US Southern culture. Having lived in California for most of my life and then moving to middle Georgia I could ...

from -Cee-

This book provides an inside experience of struggling with two radically different cultures in a relationship that results in marriage and family. A couple with very different backgrounds (middle-class American and impoverished Libyan), both educated, are attracted to each other in an unlikely ro...

from a-squared

"My Accidental Jihad" was such a perfect read for me. My mother was born in the United States and raised in a Catholic household while my father was raised Muslim in his homeland of Palestine. I loved the book so much because it precisely reflected the differences in culture that I've witnessed i...

from Lettypearl

This is not a typical memoir of a young American woman and her "Jihad" ~ personal struggles. She was not born into poverty, nor did she have to overcome physical or emotional infirmities. Rather, it is a straight forward story of a young woman's journey from a typical life of doing just what she ...

from knitwit2

This couple had to work very hard to understand each other. The husband was Muslim (and older) but he did not expect the wife to participate in any way. She was somewhat self involved but worked to overcome this for the betterment of the family. Got married because she was pregnant - ironic as sh...