This article describes the life of a 27-year-old Iraqi refugee woman, who now lives as an asylum seeker in Jordan. When the U.S. invaded in 2003, Mirah was attending university to obtain an English degree. She work columns about women’s rights in Iraq, but finally she fled the country after receiving numerous death threats. Mirah now lives in fear of deportation in Jordan and longs to come to the United States to study.
