Murder in the Name of Honour

This book is a journalistic account of Rana Husseini’s journey from “a naive but enthusiastic and stubborn journalist to the campaigns to change Jordanian law, as well as (her) experiences in other countries in the Middle East, and investigations into so-called honour killings across Europe (especially the UK) as well as the USA. This book is also an evaluation of the current situation around the world in terms of the numbers of honour killings and the laws available to murderers to escape justice....This book also attempts, through the use of many case studies, to explain why so-called crimes of honour happen in so many countries around the world and to identify where the historical, political and social roots of these...crimes lie.” Furthermore, “here is an “Appendix at the end of the book that briefly explores the particularly complex religious and historical seeds of honour.”