Sameena Imtiaz, a soft-spoken, educated Pakistani social worker, operates in the midst of U.S. drone strikes and Taliban suicide bombings. She regularly travels to remote parts of her country in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, infamously known for the safe Al-Qadea and Taliban sanctuaries, to promote peace education among the radicalized young seminary students.
While getting inside the obscure world of Pakistan's vast network of religious schools, Sameena meets with young students and engages them into peace conversations and deradicalization endeavors. Hers was a long and tiring struggle to assure the conservative school administrators that she was not an "enemy" but an agent of peace. Soon after acquiring access to the religious schools, Sameena found that many of these schools actually served as the best marketplace for the jihadist organizations to recruit innocent teenagers for suicide bombings.
