by Mindy Belz
Cover Story Sidebar | Nasreen Mustafa Sideek is the first woman to hold a ministerial
position in northern Iraq, where former Kurdish resistance fighters
dominate administrative governments. As an only daughter with eight
brothers, she is used to surviving in a man's world. "I started
this struggle at home," she said. "I was the first woman to drive a
car in Dohuk," she said. "That was 1992. I was 25. The children
would throw stones at me as I went by, I was such an oddity. So I
took different routes through
