Eclipse of the Sunnis: Power, Exile, and Upheaval in the Middle East [Paperback]

From Amman to Beirut and Damascus, award-winning NPR reporter Deborah Amos follows Sunnis living in exile--the largest exile population in postwar history. Husbands are separated from wives, children from parents, and many are cast into a violent and uncaring subculture in which they have few rights and no roots. Even college-educated women are forced to turn to prostitution. The decisions they make illuminate the human side of the post-conflict displacement in the Middle East and give voice to the trauma of the exiles who must choose daily between dignity and survival.Deborah Amos's reports can be heard on NPR's award-winningMorning Edition, All Things Considered, andWeekend Edition. For a decade she reported for television news, including ABC'sNightlineandWorld News Tonightand the PBS programsNOW with Bill MoyersandFrontline. She lives in New York City.