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

by Salbi, Zainab; Becklund, Laurie

• ISBN13: 9781592402441
• ISBN10: 1592402445
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781440627163
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-17
• Publisher: Avery
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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