![]() ![]() But just as she settles into her new life, the need to return for her lost daughter overwhelms her, and one fateful day, Salma goes back to her village to find the girl. With the help of an elderly English landlady and a Pakistani girl on the run from an arranged marriage, Salma is finally able to forge a new identity. ![]() Devastated and disowned, she endures years of isolation before she is ushered to safety in Exeter, England, where she faces a new set of social pressures and expectations. Though she is placed in protective custody, Salma's newborn child is ripped from her arms upon arrival. When Salma gives birth to the child, she suddenly finds herself a fugitive on the run from those seeking to restore their honor. Salma has committed a crime considered punishable by death among her Bedouin tribe of Hima in the Levant: she had sex out of wedlock and became pregnant. An "exquisitely woven" novel of love, exile, and violated honor among a Bedouin tribe from the Jordanian-British author and human rights activist (Leila Aboulela). While Faqir’s earlier novels lay a specific emphasis on the Middle East, her third novel, The Cry of the Dove, offers a dual vision of an Arab Bedouin woman’s journey trying to attain her hybrid identity by fighting the patriarchal practices and the oppressions of the Arab and European worlds, which shapes the core of this research paper. ![]()
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