Ellen R. Sheeley's Writings
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May.07.2009
Peace Corps Writers, April 30, 2009
Ellen R. Sheeley was an early business PCV in Western Samoa from 1983 to 1985. Finishing her tour, she traveled home very slowly, circling the globe. Years later as a successful businesswoman, she happened to watch a television newscast that impassioned her. Ellen was kind enough to grant an electronic interview about her book Reclaiming Honor in Jordan: A...
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Apr.22.2008
IPS
CASABLANCA, Jan. 31 (IPS) - State-directed violence, the refusal to give up the death penalty and the holding of public executions are some of the principal factors that are supporting the continuing resort to the age-old practice of 'honour killings', murder to cleanse a family name of shame.
"The culture of violence in settling international and nation...
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Apr.22.2008
Chicago Sun-Times' SouthtownStar
An Oak Forest grandfather accused of setting a fire that killed his pregnant daughter, her husband and their 3-year-old son was held without bail Tuesday, charged with three counts of first-degree murder, arson and one count of intentional homicide of an unborn child.
Subhash Chander, 57, set the fatal blaze because he didn't like his son-in-law, prosecutors...
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Apr.22.2008
The National Arab American Times
Author Ellen Sheeley has published a new book called Reclaiming Honor in Jordan, in which she conducted a nationwide survey of public attitudes, opinions, and beliefs about these crimes. It is believed to be the first such empirical study of its kind and yielded some surprising findings that help in understanding the underlying thinking and how people in...
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Apr.22.2008
Jordan Business
When Parliament in Jordan overwhelmingly rejected a proposed law imposing harsher penalties for 'honor' killings, it triggered international outrage. It also caught the attention of one American marketer. Nina Robertson talks to Ellen Sheeley about how she is using her business skill set to try and overturn the law.At least 25 women are killed in the name of '...
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Apr.08.2008
UPI
An Appeal to Jordan to Stop Honor KillingsBy Ellen R. SheeleyGuest CommentaryApril 7, 2008
United States--April 7 is the one-year anniversary of the young Kurdish girl Du'a Khalil Aswad's tragic video-recorded stoning at the hands of men who misguidedly believe she had sullied her family's honor. On this day I wish to make a public appeal to King Abdullah II of...
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About Ellen
Ellen R. Sheeley is the author of Reclaiming Honor in Jordan: A National Public Opinion Survey on "Honor" Killings and a contributor to the anthology Nothing But Red.
In 2003, she journeyed to Jordan, where she learned of the needs for empirical...
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For All Women Foundation
Ellen’s Favorite Books
I vacillate between Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner" and Frank McCourt's "Angela's Ashes." I've read both multiple times and relate perhaps too well to...