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Restless in her job and her life in general, Jennifer Steil, a gregarious, liberal New Yorker, in the beginning accepts a short-term chance to teach a journalism course to the staff of the Yemen Observer in Sana'a, the stunning, old, and very traditional capital of Yemen. Seduced by the eager reporters and the enticing potential client of growing democratic journalistic ideals there, she extends her stay to per annum as the paper's editor in chief. But she is quickly confronted with the traditional realities of Yemen---and their surprising advantages. She discovers unexpected benefits in the concealment behind the customized burqa she wears. In teaching the basics of fair and healthy journalism to an employee that included plagiarists and polemicists, she falls deeply in love with her job again. In confronting the blatant mistreatment and strict governance of women by their men counterparts, she discovers to appreciate the strength of Arab women in the place of work. And in forging amazingly deep friendships with people whose customs and beliefs are altogether opposition to her own, she discovers a cultural understanding she never may have predicted.

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