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Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam
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Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam Paperback - 2006

by Zainab Salbi; Laurie Becklund

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.


Summary

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?

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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?

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MY MOTHER GREW up in a grand house, with a courtyard and sixteen rooms, on the Tigris River.

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  • Title Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam
  • Author Zainab Salbi; Laurie Becklund
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Avery Publishing Group, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date August 17, 2006
  • Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781592402441 / 1592402445
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5.3 x 1 in (20.07 x 13.46 x 2.54 cm)
  • Ages 14 to UP years
  • Grade levels 9 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
    • Chronological Period: 1950-1999
    • Cultural Region: Arab World
    • Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
    • Ethnic Orientation: Arabic
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Abused wives - United States, Iraq - Politics and government - 1991-2003
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Zainab Salbi is the founder and president of Women for Women International, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing women of war and civil unrest with the resources to become self-sufficient citizens and promote peace. She holds degrees from George Mason University and the London School of Economics, and she has publicized her work widely in the media, including six appearances on Oprah.

Laurie Becklund is a Los Angeles journalist and author. A former Los Angeles Times reporter, she wrote the first story about Salbi in 1991, when Zainab was a young woman stranded in America after a failed marriage during the Gulf War.

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