The journalist Lene Wold discusses her book Inside an Honor Killing: A Father and a Daughter Tell Their Story (Greystone, 2019), with Joseph Planta.
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Inside an Honor Killing: A Father and a Daughter Tell Their Story by Lene Wold (Greystone, 2019).
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Text of introduction by Joseph Planta:
I am Planta: On the Line, in Vancouver, British Columbia, at TheCommentary.ca.
One of the more compelling books out is Inside an Honor Killing: A Father and a Daughter Tell Their Story. The journalist Lene Wold interviews at length both Amina, a survivor of an honour killing, and Rahman, who killed Amina’s sister, who tried to kill Amina as well. Rahman also killed his own mother. How Ms. Wold, who joins me now, found Amina and Rahman is a compelling part of the book as well; not to mention how she approaches each as she engages each of them to tell their story. She also looks at the concept of the honour killing, and how it is still a practice that finds more than 5,000 women killed each year, seemingly “in the name of honour.” What Ms. Wold writes about takes place in Jordan, where she lived for a time, where she reported from, and where, as the book opens, was brutally attacked by a man. That precipitates the journey she takes to find out how and why women are shamed, silenced and ostracised by their communities. These cultural beliefs passed down and learned reflect challenges that women face not only in the Middle East but elsewhere. Lene Wold is an investigative journalist, an activist with Amnesty International, and a writer who has worked for the Independent and the Centre for Investigative Journalism in England. She has degrees from Goldsmiths, University of London and the University of Oslo. This book is published by Greystone. She joined me from Oslo, Norway last week. Please welcome to the Planta: On the Line program, Lene Wold; Ms. Wold, good morning.
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