A God Who Hates Women by Dr Majid Rafizadeh

The acclaimed Iranian-American political scientist Dr Majid Rafizadeh narrates
the story of none other than his mother and the grim treatment she received from the men her parents forcefully married her to, at a young age. In an age, when his mother, a Syrian, wanted to pursue studies, her parents stuck to the so-called societal norms of tying knots to literally “get rid of her”.

At that tender age, when she deserved love and comfort, all she received was slaps, kicks, punches, mocks and abuses from the men she was told to consider her everything and set up a different world with. And even as she and her rights as a woman were violated by these atrocities, the neighborhood remained calm and ignorant, as if nothing hellish happened. >> Read the complete review