Mayada Daughter Of Iraq

Author : Jean Sasson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101119187
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mayada, Daughter of Iraq written by Jean Sasson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-09-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A member of one of the most distinguished and honored families in Iraq, Mayada grew up surrounded by wealth and royalty. But when Saddam Hussein’s regime took power, she was thrown into cell 52 in the infamous Baladiyat prison with seventeen other nameless, faceless women from all walks of life. To ease their suffering, these “shadow women” passed each day by sharing their life stories. Now, through Jean Sasson, Mayada is finally able to tell her story—and theirs—to the world.

Author : Jean P. Sasson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mayada written by Jean P. Sasson and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mayada Al-Askari was born into a powerful Iraqi family. One grandfather fought alongside Lawrence of Arabia, the other is acclaimed as the first 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 stinking cell already housing seventeen other 'shadow women'. Like latter-day Schehrazades, 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

Author : Jean Sasson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780552213011
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mayada written by Jean Sasson and published by . This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jean Sasson
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446438740
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love In A Torn Land written by Jean Sasson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author Jean Sasson tells the dramatic true story of a young woman caught up in Saddam Hussein's genocide of the Kurdish people of Iraq. One morning Joanna, a young bride living in the Kurdish mountains of Iraq, was surprised to see dead birds drop silently out of the clear sky. They were followed by sinister canisters falling to the ground, bringing fear and death. It was 1987, and Saddam Hussein had ordered his cousin 'Chemical Ali' to bombard Joanna's village, Bergalou, with chemical weapons. Temporarily blinded in the attack, Joanna was rescued by her husband, a Kurdish freedom fighter. After being caught in another bombardment and left for dead in the rubble, they managed to flee over the mountains in a harrowing escape. Now living in the UK and working for British Airways, Joanna has told the story of her eventful life to Jean Sasson, the bestselling chronicler of oppressed women's lives in the Princess trilogy and Mayada. Love in a Torn Land is published while the world watches the trial of the notorious 'Chemical Ali', Saddam Hussein's most bloodthirsty henchman, for crimes including the genocide of the Kurdish people.

Author : Jean Sasson
Publisher : Liza Dawson Associates
ISBN 13 : 9781939481054
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Chick in Saudi Arabia written by Jean Sasson and published by Liza Dawson Associates. This book was released on 2012 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It all begins with an ad in the newspaper. When Jean Sasson, a young Southern woman living in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, answers a call to work in the royal hospital in Saudi Arabia, what should have been a two-year stay turns into a life-changing adventure spanning over a decade. Over the years Jean is plunged into the hidden lives of the veiled women in Riyadh, where women are locked in luxurious homes and fundamentalist mutawas terrorize the streets. Jean meets women from all walks of life--a feisty bedouin, an educated mother, a conservative wife of a high-ranking Saudi, and a Saudi princess the world knows as Princess Sultana--all who open a window into Saudi culture and help to reshape Jean's worldviews ... the first installment in a heartfelt, inspiring memoir about Jean's thirty-year travels and adventures in Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Kuwait and Iraq.

Author : Jean Sasson
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780613709156
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Princess Sultana's Circle written by Jean Sasson and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2002-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book paints a horrifying reality for women of the desert kingdom. It is a haunting look at the danger of Saudi male dominance and the desperate lives of the women they rule.

Author : Jean P. Sasson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781101117477
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mayada, Daughter of Iraq written by Jean P. Sasson and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A member of one of the most distinguished and honored families in Iraq, Mayada grew up surrounded by wealth and royalty. But when Saddam Hussein's regime took power, she was thrown into cell 52 in the infamous Baladiyat prison with seventeen other nameless, faceless women from all walks of life. To ease their suffering, these shadow women passed each day by sharing their life stories. Now, through Jean Sasson, Mayada is finally able to tell her story - and theirs - to the world.

Author : Jean P. Sasson
Publisher : Doubleday UK
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love in a Torn Land written by Jean P. Sasson and published by Doubleday UK. This book was released on 2007 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pays attention to the fate of the oppressed Kurdish people of Iraq, recreating their plight through the eyes of Jawan, a beautiful young woman married to a Kurdish freedom fighter.

Author : Jane Bingham
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1484610776
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gulf Wars With Iraq written by Jane Bingham and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why has the recent War in Iraq been so contentious, whereas the First Gulf War was supported by a broad coalition of nations? Why are they of such global significance? And how did the wars affect people on both sides of the conflict? This book seeks to relate the overall events and chronology of the wars and shows their impact on everyday lives.

Author : Gillian Whitlock
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226895270
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soft Weapons written by Gillian Whitlock and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran,Marjane Satrapi’s comics, and “Baghdad Blogger” Salam Pax’s Internet diary are just a few examples of the new face of autobiography in an age of migration, globalization, and terror. But while autobiography and other genres of life writing can help us attend to people whose experiences are frequently unseen and unheard, life narratives can also be easily co-opted into propaganda. In Soft Weapons, Gillian Whitlock explores the dynamism and ubiquity of contemporary life writing about the Middle East and shows how these works have been packaged, promoted, and enlisted in Western controversies. Considering recent autoethnographies of Afghan women, refugee testimony from Middle Eastern war zones, Jean Sasson’s bestsellers about the lives of Arab women, Norma Khouri’s fraudulent memoir Honor Lost, personal accounts by journalists reporting the war in Iraq, Satrapi’s Persepolis, Nafisi’s book, and Pax’s blog, Whitlock explores the contradictions and ambiguities in the rapid commodification of life memoirs. Drawing from the fields of literary and cultural studies, Soft Weapons will be essential reading for scholars of life writing and those interested in the exchange of literary culture between Islam and the West.