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Mayada: Daughter Of Iraq

Af: Jean Sasson Engelsk Paperback

Mayada: Daughter Of Iraq

Af: Jean Sasson Engelsk Paperback
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Mayada was born into a powerful Iraqi family. One grandfather fought alongside Lawrence of Arabia. The other is acclaimed as the first true Arab nationalist. Her uncle was Prime Minister for nearly forty years, her mother an important politician. When Saddam Hussein and his Ba''ath party seized power, and instituted his reign of terror, Mayada found herself alone in Baghdad, a divorced parent of two children, earning a meagre living printing brochures. Until one morning in August 1999 she was summarily arrested and dragged to the notorious Baladiyat Prison, falsely accused of printing anti-government propaganda.

There she was thrown into a cell with 17 ''shadow women''. Like latter-day Sherezades, these women passed their days, while waiting for the next interrogation and torture session, telling each other their stories. They were eager to hear Mayada''s stories of her privileged former life, of the history of her proud family, of kings and queens, of meetings with Saddam himself.

Not only the story of a woman intimately connected to Iraq''s cultured, ancient history, this book is a powerful witness to the terror and horror wrought by Saddam on the lives and souls of its ordinary citizens.

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Mayada was born into a powerful Iraqi family. One grandfather fought alongside Lawrence of Arabia. The other is acclaimed as the first true Arab nationalist. Her uncle was Prime Minister for nearly forty years, her mother an important politician. When Saddam Hussein and his Ba''ath party seized power, and instituted his reign of terror, Mayada found herself alone in Baghdad, a divorced parent of two children, earning a meagre living printing brochures. Until one morning in August 1999 she was summarily arrested and dragged to the notorious Baladiyat Prison, falsely accused of printing anti-government propaganda.

There she was thrown into a cell with 17 ''shadow women''. Like latter-day Sherezades, these women passed their days, while waiting for the next interrogation and torture session, telling each other their stories. They were eager to hear Mayada''s stories of her privileged former life, of the history of her proud family, of kings and queens, of meetings with Saddam himself.

Not only the story of a woman intimately connected to Iraq''s cultured, ancient history, this book is a powerful witness to the terror and horror wrought by Saddam on the lives and souls of its ordinary citizens.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 432
ISBN-13: 9780553816402
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0553816403
Kategori: Saudi Arabia
Udg. Dato: 1 okt 2004
Længde: 29mm
Bredde: 105mm
Højde: 176mm
Forlag: Transworld Publishers Ltd
Oplagsdato: 1 okt 2004
Forfatter(e): Jean Sasson
Forfatter(e) Jean Sasson

Kategori Saudi Arabia

ISBN-13 9780553816402

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 432

Udgave

Længde 29mm

Bredde 105mm

Højde 176mm

Udg. Dato 1 okt 2004

Oplagsdato 1 okt 2004

Forlag Transworld Publishers Ltd

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