The Key to Paradise
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TextSubject(s): Abstract: Diane, the heroine, is a French surgeon who goes to India after a horrific personal tragedy. There she discovers the Third World and decides to start a movement called Women Without Borders. Her platform emphasizes international solidarity among women to achieve peace and a new international economic order. As a Doctor Without Borders volunteer, she is involved in a humanitarian mssion in the Middle East, charged with resettling Iranian boy-soldiers taken prisoner during the Iran-Iraq War. In Tehran, Diane is taken hostage by revolutionary militia. There she discovers the contrast between the Bahá'í Faith's principles and the abusive interpretations of Islamic fanatics.
Diane, the heroine, is a French surgeon who goes to India after a horrific personal tragedy. There she discovers the Third World and decides to start a movement called Women Without Borders. Her platform emphasizes international solidarity among women to achieve peace and a new international economic order. As a Doctor Without Borders volunteer, she is involved in a humanitarian mssion in the Middle East, charged with resettling Iranian boy-soldiers taken prisoner during the Iran-Iraq War. In Tehran, Diane is taken hostage by revolutionary militia. There she discovers the contrast between the Bahá'í Faith's principles and the abusive interpretations of Islamic fanatics.