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 Mayada: Daughter of Iraq - Jean P. Sasson
Description: ISBN 0525948112 / Author: Jean P. Sasson / Genre: Biography Newest Review: ... place to live in and begs Mayada and her children to go too, but Mayada wouldn’t leave her beloved Iraq believing that she ... more  ... was safe until one day the security forces arrested her in her printing shop and she was taken to the worst prison in Baghdad, Balidiyat.
She hadn’t done anything wrong but that didn’t matter in Saddam’s Iraq. Lots of innocent people were put in prison and tortured.
Sasson records the experiences of Mayada’s cell mates known as “the shadow women” in Cell 52 – the place which was now home for Mayada.
I must tell you that it is horrifying. Really, truly, despicable.
The guards are animals. In fact, I am doing an inju...more |
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Mayada: Daughter of Iraq - Jean P. Sasson: Whatever Happened to the Shadow Women of Cell 52? (2139 words)
by wearsidelass - written on 01.12.04 (Very useful, 1707 readings)
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I bought this book a few weeks ago whilst buying Desert Royal by Jean Sasson which, as most of you will probably know by now, is the third of a true-life trilogy for a Saudi Arabian princess. So, this is the 4th book I have read by Sasson and again it centres on the life of a Middle Eastern woman. Her name is Mayada and the book is about the true story of the granddaughter of two of Iraq’s most famous and respected leaders; Jafar Pasha Al-Askari (Defence Minister and Prime Minister of Iraq ) and Sati Al-Husri (one of the first Arab Nationalists and also a government minister). This book gives a brilliant insight into the history of Iraq and I gained so much ...
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