Mayada : Daughter Of Iraq One Woman's Survival In Saddam Hussein's Torture Jail

Author: Jean Sasson

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  • : $21.99 AUD
  • : 9780553816402
  • : Transworld Publishers Ltd
  • : Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
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  • : 30 September 2004
  • : United Kingdom
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Description

Mayada was born into a powerful Iraqi family. When Saddam Hussein seized power, Mayada found herself alone in Baghdad, a divorced parent, earning a meagre living, until one morning when she was dragged to the notorious Baladiyat Prison, falsely accused of printing anti-government propaganda and thrown into a cell with seventeen 'shadow women'. Not only the story of a woman intimately connected to Iraq's cultured, ancient history, this book is a powerful witness to the horror wrought by Saddam on the souls of Iraq's ordinary citizens. From the bestselling author of Princess.

Author description

Jean P Sasson is the author of the worldwide bestsellers Princess, Daughters of Arabia, Desert Royal and now Mayada: Daughter of Iraq. She lived in Saudi Arabia for over ten years from 1978 and became, during that time, the intimate friend and confidante of 'Sultana', who asked her to tell her story. She lives in the USA.