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Deborah Scroggins (November 27, 1961 in Atlanta, Georgia〔"Deborah Scroggins." ''Contemporary Authors Online''. Detroit: Gale, 2007.〕) is an American journalist and author. A graduate of Tulane University and Columbia University, she was a reporter and editor for the ''Atlanta Journal-Constitution'' from 1987 to 1998.〔 Her book ''Emma's War: An Aid Worker, Radical Islam and the Politics of Oil - A True Story of Love and Death in the Sudan'' is about Emma McCune, a British aid worker who married Sudanese warlord Riek Machar. It won the 2003 Ron Ridenhour Award for Truth-Telling. Director Tony Scott had planned to direct a film based on the book and initial reports indicated that Nicole Kidman would star as McCune.〔Tom Anderson, ''The Independent, March 27, 2005〕 The project was in development at the time of Scott's death in 2012;〔 〕 its fate following Scott's death remains unclear. Scroggins has also written a second book: ''Wanted Women: Faith, Lies, and the War on Terror: The Lives of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui'',〔 〕 an examination of the militant Islam movement through the lives of two women on opposite sides of the spectrum: Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui. ==References== 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Deborah Scroggins」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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