Mayada, Daughter of Iraq: One Woman's Survival Under Saddam Hussein - Couverture souple

Sasson, Jean

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0451212924 ISBN 13 : 9780451212924

Editeur : Penguin Publishing Group, 2004

Synopsis

Book by Sasson Jean

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

Mayada Al-Askari was born into a powerful Iraqi family. When Saddam Hussein and his Ba'ath party seized power, Mayada little imagined the devastation that it would wreak upon her life. But soon she found herself alone in Baghdad, a divorced mother of two, earning a meagre living printing brochures - until the morning in 1999 when she was arrested by Saddam's secret police and dragged to the notorious Baladiyat Prison, accused of producing anti-government propaganda.

There she was thrown into a cell already housing seventeen other 'shadow women'. These women came from different backgrounds, but all shared the same fate: imprisonment and torture without trial, and the threat of execution. To block out the screams of other prisoners, like latter-day Scheherazades the shadow women told each other their stories. Mayada's tales of her privileged former life were a source of particular fascination, including her own encounters with Saddam himself.

Biographie de l'auteur

Jean Sasson is a writer and lecturer who has lived in Saudi Arabia and traveled extensively in the Middle East.  She is the author of four internationally bestselling books on the Middle East, including The Rape of Kuwait, Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia, Princess Sultana’s Daughters, and Princess Sultana’s Circle.  Jean now lives in the deep South, although she still visits the Middle East frequently.

 

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0451212924
• ISBN 13: 9780451212924
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 360