what is it?
where is it from? who wrote/created it?
in a paragraph or two, why would this be useful to readers before they started reading? what ideas would you want them to think about? how would this piece help get at those ideas? do you agree or disagree with the ideas in the piece?

http://www.islamic.org.uk/women.html
this is an article on women's oppression in Islamic countries.
This is a good article to read because it gives you a real sense of whats going to be going on in the book. Not just the article in the book but the two articles that are linked to the page that i have linked. these articles will be good to make people understand the impotence and understand the ideas of the modern Islamic person compared to the major religious ones who made it so that woman must wear the veil and keep concealed and were given no freedom what so ever.
in one of the links it takes you to a page were it list several rights that woman have in an Islamic land. some of these are: the right and duty to obtain an education, the right to obtain devorce from her husband, and the right to negotiate marrige terms of her choice. there are alot more rights listed but i picked these three because they seem to be major parts of the book. Marjane has trouble with these things and ends up coming to terms with them. such as the negotiate marrige right, her father makes it clear before he would let her get married her hudband must let her get a deivorce if she wishes. this is just an example but the article gives very usfull information as to these rights and its very helpfull to at least have an understanding of what rights woman have and were some of these ideas come from because it makes the book a little more clear with some background information.