Beth Baron: 1 book
The Orphan Scandal
Christian Missionaries and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
On a sweltering June morning in 1933 a fifteen-year-old Muslim orphan girl refused to rise in a show of respect for her elders at her Christian missionary school in Port Said. Her intransigence led to a beating—and to the end of most foreign missions in Egypt—and contributed to the rise of Islamist...
