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Title: Burned Alive : A Victim of the Law of Men by Souad, Marie-Therese Cuny ISBN: 0-446-53346-7 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 11 May, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Must Read!
Comment: The hardship of being a female child to a male controled family and male oriented lifestyle in the West Bank. Then her subsequent death because she was in love, made love, and then shunned by the lover. Burned alive due to the male honor status. Then a rebirth into a new world, where she learned to live, love, marry, have children. But with the terrible memories of her non-existant childhood and the scars she still has haunts her to this day. But my impression is that she is strong and is a survivor.
Rating: 4
Summary: A sad state of affairs
Comment: Souad says she was born in a tiny village in the late 1950's in the West Bank, Palestine, (not Jordan like the book description states). She describes the torment of her childhood; being savagely and regularly beaten by her father, witnessing her mother suffocate newborn baby girls, one of her sisters being strangled by her brother, her married sister and sister-in-law being beaten by their husbands. She describes a demonic conspiracy amongst the people of her village (and in many Middle Eastern countries as well as Pakistan and India) to terrorize, beat and murder females; and this conspiracy includes women. After she is burned and taken to the hospital, the nurses neglect her because having been raised in an environment where honor murders are acceptable, they believe Souad has gotten what she deserves. It would seem that centuries of killing off the women who resisted male oppression has resulted in a female population largely lacking in self-respect and spirit.
After escaping the Middle East with the help of aid worker Jacqueline, Souad undergoes numerous operations to repair her burned skin. She then marries and raises a family in Europe. She is asked to speak on behalf of victims of honor crimes for an aid organization called SURGIR, which she agrees to.
Souad tells us that several thousands of women are murdered each year, not including the disappearances and "suicides" that have not been counted as honor crimes, and that the men who commit these murders are considered heroes in their villages, getting at most a light jail sentence or slap on the wrist from the authorities. She hopes to help stop honor murders by telling her story and raising awareness.
Rating: 4
Summary: Amazing read
Comment: If you liked the books First They Killed My Father and Stolen Lives, this is just as good. The actual story is sometimes a bit redundant, but overall the story about surviving comes across.
It will hopefully bring awareness to a horrible problem that exists today.
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Title: Slave by Mende Nazer, Damien Lewis ISBN: 1586482122 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Mayada, Daughter of Iraq: One Woman's Survival Under Saddam Hussein by Jean P. Sasson, Jean Sasson ISBN: 0525948112 Publisher: Dutton Books Pub. Date: 16 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban: A Young Woman's Story by Latifa, Shekeba Hachemi ISBN: 0786869011 Publisher: Miramax Pub. Date: 13 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood by Julie Gregory, Marc D. Feldman ISBN: 0553803077 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Price of Honor: Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic World by Jan Goodwin ISBN: 0452283779 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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