Jean Sasson first met Mayada in 1998. She traveled to Baghdad and Mayada was her official interpreter.They soon became friends and Mayada started to tell her the atrocities of Saddam Hussein. Mayada decided that she wanted to expose her story to the whole world and denounce the brutality of life in Iraq under Saddam Hussein. She asked Jean to write the experiences. Mayada lived several months in a cell, along with 17 other women, that she calls shadow-women. Most of them were totally innocent. They were tortured again and again until they confessed to everything they were charged with. Some of them died without hope of ever being free. The ones that survived were kept alive by their friendship, and the stories Mayada told them to make their pain and misery more bearable.

Mayada, Hija De Irak (Spanish Edition)

SASSON,JEAN

Literature & Fiction

Plaza y Janés.

A Saudi Arabian princess describes the inequities for women in her country, discussing arranged marriages for child brides, the murder of female babies, and her own life in the shadow of men.

Sultana (Spanish Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Debolsillo]

Las Cadenas De Sultana (Spanish Edition)

This book paints a horrifying reality for women of the desert kingdom. It is a haunting look at the danger of Saudi male dominance and the desperate lives of the women they rule.

Las Cadenas de Sultana (Spanish Edition)

Leaders & Notable People

Ambientada en la Arabia Saudi actual, este libro es un crudo testimonio de la brutalidad y represión de que son objeto las mujeres en el mundo árabe.

Las Hijas de Sultana (Spanish Edition)

Growing Up bin Laden: Osama's Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World

The New York Times calls GROWING UP BIN LADEN: "The most complete account available of the terrorist’s immediate family." (May 15, 2011) A true story that few ever believed would come to light, GROWING UP BIN LADEN uncovers startling revelations and hidden secrets carefully guarded by the most wanted terrorist of our lifetime, Osama bin Laden. "I was not always the wife of Osama bin Laden. Once I was an innocent child dreaming little girl dreams…" Thus begins this powerful story as Najwa bin Laden, who married her cousin Osama bin Laden at the age of 15 to become his first wife and the mother to eleven of his children, and her son, Omar bin Laden, the fourth-born son of Osama bin Laden. Together, mother and son tell an extraordinarily powerful story of a man hated by so many, yet both loved and feared by his family, with spine-tingling details about the life and times of the man they knew as a husband and father, including:<ul>
<li>Osama’s disapproval of modern conveniences, including electricity and medicine </li>
<li>His plan to toughen up his sons by taking them into the desert without food or water </li>
<li>Transporting his wives and children to the rough terrain of Sudan, where he claimed to be preparing them for attacks from western powers, commanding them to dig holes, and to sleep in those holes, allowing nothing more than sand and twigs for cover </li>
<li>Omar’s horror at the rape and murder of a boy his own age, by members of a jihadist group living among them in the Sudan. </li>
<li>What happened in the bin Laden home in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on the morning of September 11, 2001, and Omar’s surprise phone call with his mother, who escaped from Afghanistan only two days before the shattering events that killed so many innocent people</li>
</ul>
Since September 11, 2001, journalists have struggled to uncover carefully guarded information about Osama’s private life. Until now, Osama Bin Laden’s family members have not cooperated with any writers or journalists. Now, with unprecedented access and insight, Jean Sasson, author of the bestselling Princess: A True Story Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia, takes us inside the secret world of Osama bin Laden.

History

bin Laden, Omar

bin Laden, Najwa

Middle East

St.Martin's Press

From the New York Times bestselling author of Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia In their own words, Osama bin Laden's wife and son tell the astonishing story of the man they knew―or thought they knew―before September 11, 2001.
The world knows Osama bin Laden as the most wanted terrorist of our time. But people are not born terrorists, and bin Laden has carefully guarded the details of his private life―until now, when his first wife and fourth-born son break the silence to take us inside his strange and secret world. In spine-tingling detail, Jean Sasson tells their story of life with a man whose growing commitment to violent jihad led him to move his wives and children from an orderly life to one of extreme danger, even choosing the teenage Omar to accompany him to the mountain fortress of Tora Bora.

Community & Culture

St. Martin's: Griffin

The gripping, candid sequel to Princess chronicles the  fates of Princess Sultana's two daughters--the elder, driven by  isolation and fear into a lesbian relationship and mental breakdown,  and the younger, who is seduced by fundamentalist fanaticism.

Daughters of Arabia

DOUBLEDAY

Chronicles the fates of the two daughters of a Saudi Arabian princess--the elder, driven by isolation and fear into a lesbian relationship and mental breakdown, and the younger, who is seduced by fundamentalist fanaticism

PRINCESS SULTANA'S DAUGHTERS

Mayada Al-Askari was born into a powerful Iraqi family. One grandfather fought alongside Lawrence of Arabia, the other is acclaimed as the first Arab nationalist. Her uncle was Prime Minister for nearly forty years, her mother an important politician. When Saddam Hussein and his Ba'ath Party seized power, and instituted his reign of terror, Mayada found herself alone in Baghdad, a divorced parent of two children, earning a meagre living printing brochures. Until one morning in August 1999 she was summarily arrested and dragged to the notorious Baladiyat Prison, falsely accused of printing anti-government propaganda. There she was thrown into a stinking cell already housing seventeen other 'shadow women'. Like latter-day Schehrazades, these women passed their days, while waiting for the next interrogation and torture session, telling each other their stories. They were eager to hear Mayada's stories of her privileged former life, of the history of her proud family, of kings and queens, of meetings with Saddam himself. Not only the story of a woman intimately connected to Iraq's cultured, ancient history, this book is a powerful witness to the terror and horror wrought by Saddam

Mayada : Daughter of Iraq

Transworld Hardbacks

A member of one of the most distinguished and honored families in Iraq, Mayada grew up surrounded by wealth and royalty. But when Saddam Hussein’s regime took power, she was thrown into cell 52 in the infamous Baladiyat prison with seventeen other nameless, faceless women from all walks of life. To ease their suffering, these “shadow women” passed each day by sharing their life stories. Now, through Jean Sasson, Mayada is finally able to tell her storyand theirsto the world.

Mayada, Daughter of Iraq: One Woman's Survival Under Saddam Hussein

Penguin Publishing Group

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Mayada, Hija De Irak (Spanish Edition)

Sultana (Spanish Edition)

Las Cadenas de Sultana (Spanish Edition)

Las Hijas de Sultana (Spanish Edition)

Growing Up bin Laden: Osama's Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World

Growing Up bin Laden: Osama's Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World

Daughters of Arabia

PRINCESS SULTANA'S DAUGHTERS

Mayada : Daughter of Iraq

Mayada, Daughter of Iraq: One Woman's Survival Under Saddam Hussein