The author, Annelies Ismail, has been married to an Egyptian for more than fify-three years. Today she lives in Alexandria, Egypt, for most of the year. Her encounters with other foreign women where the trigger for this book. Fifteen women told the very personal story of their lives.In the 1960s, some of these women followed their husbands 'blindly' into a foreign country, where they had to learn a new language and face the challenges of living in...