'A courageous analysis of Arab writers, addressing the connections between masculinity, violence, and nationalism.' ?Robin Morgan, Ms.. 'Rarely have sexuality and war been treated with such poignancy and historical concreteness .... The force of these often intertwined phenomena endemic to the human condition are considered with incisive and wrenching specificity from within one of the most baneful convergences of sexuality and war in recent history.' ?Djelal Kadir, editor, World Literature Today. 'Personal, powerful, passionate, uncensored.' ?Fedwa Malti-Douglas, The Journal of Women's History. A welcome departure from stereotypical nationalist conceptions from which no solutions to the current impasse can possibly emerge.' ?Joel Benin, The Middle East Report. Accad's extraordinary pacifism is deeply compelling to women as it is deeply challenging to men.' ?Andrea Dworkin. A splendid book. Drawing on interviews with Lebanon's village women and her close readings of Lebanon's