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9781592402441

Between Two Worlds : Escape from Tyranny - Growing up in the Shadow of Saddam

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  • ISBN13:

    9781592402441

  • ISBN10:

    1592402445

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-08-17
  • Publisher: Gotham
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Summary

Zainab Salbi was eleven years old when her father was chosen to serve as Saddam Hussein's personal pilot, her family often forced to spend weekends with Saddam where he watched their every move. As a palace insider, Zainab offers a singular glimpse of what it is like to come of age under a dictator and provides an intimate portrait of the man she was taught to call "uncle."

Author Biography

A native of Iraq who arrived in the United States at the age of twenty, 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.

Laurie Becklund is an award-winning Los Angeles journalist and author. This is her third collaboration. A former Los Angeles Times,/I> reporter, she wrote the first story about Salbi in 1991, when Salbi was a young woman stranded in America by the Gulf War.

Table of Contents

Prologue vii
The Abbasid Coin 1(20)
Strings
21(34)
After Pig's Island
55(16)
The Pilot's Daughter
71(22)
Learning to Cry with Ducks
93(24)
Boxes
117(20)
A White Horse
137(34)
Collateral Damage
171(28)
Becoming Zainab
199(36)
Setting Me Free
235(30)
The Middle Fish
265(23)
Afterword 288(4)
Collaborator's Note 292(2)
Reader's Guide 294

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