| Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam Contributor(s): Salbi, Zainab (Author), Becklund, Laurie (Author) |
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ISBN: 1592402445 ISBN-13: 9781592402441 Publisher: Avery Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2006 Annotation: The highly anticipated memoir from the daughter of Saddam Hussein's personal pilot is an unforgettable story of survival, strength, and one woman's struggle against tyranny. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Middle East - General - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Women |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.3" W x 7.9" (0.70 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Chronological Period - 21st Century - Cultural Region - Arab World - Ethnic Orientation - Arabic - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Zainab Salbi was eleven years old when her father was chosen to be Saddam Hussein's personal pilot and her family's life was grafted onto his. Her mother, the beautiful Alia, taught her daughter the skills she needed to survive. A plastic smile. Saying yes. Burying in boxes in her mind the horrors she glimpsed around her. Learn to erase your memories, she instructed. He can read eyes. In this richly visual memoir, Salbi describes tyranny as she saw it - through the eyes of a privileged child, a rebellious teenager, a violated wife, and ultimately a public figure fighting to overcome the skill that once kept her alive: silence. Between Two Worlds is a riveting quest for truth that deepens our understanding of the universal themes of power, fear, sexual subjugation, and the question one generation asks the one before it: How could you have let this happen to us? |