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'Our Women On The Ground' Unites Stories From Female Journalists In The Arab World

A Kiowa Warrior helicopter flies above soldiers with 4th Squadron 2d Cavalry Regiment during a live-fire exercise in the desert on March 6, 2014 near Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Our Women on the Ground takes readers to places few dare to go, like the eastern Aleppo home of Zaina Erhaim. The Syrian journalist's prized possession is her video camera, and she urges a friend to bring it to her at the hospital should her building be bombed and reduced to rubble.

She writes: "My camera, my passport, and I live or die together."

Erhaim is one of the essayists in the ground-breaking anthology that should fascinate any fan of the stories behind

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