Mayada: Daughter Of Iraq by Jean Sasson (Paperback, 2004)

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Mayada: Daughter Of Iraq by Jean Sasson (Paperback, 2004)

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Iraqi woman's true story of life inside Saddam Hussein's torture prisons, by the bestselling author of PRINCESS 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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PublisherTransWorld LTD
ISBN-139780553816402
eBay Product ID (ePID)87882751

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Book TitleMayada: Daughter of Iraq
AuthorJean Sasson
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicZoology
Publication Year2004
TypeTextbook
GenreBiographies & True Stories
Number of Pages432 Pages

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Item Height178mm
Item Width106mm
Item Weight221g

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Title_AuthorJean Sasson
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

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    a very good read, my wife has read most of this authors books

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    Read this book if you want to know about the realty in Iraq when Saddam was in power.

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    Compulsive reading enjoyed it very much

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