by Jean Sasson · Edições Asa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789724138008
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«Mayada, Filha Do Iraque» is the biographical account by Jean Sasson, published by Edições Asa in paperback (319 pages, in Portuguese).
Mayada Al-Askari, from a privileged Iraqi family, sees her life change under Saddam Hussein. In August 1999 she is arrested and imprisoned in Baladiyat, headquarters of the secret police, accused of anti-government propaganda. There she shares a cell with seventeen other women, the «shadow women», and suffers torture. A testimony of resistance and hope.
Work originally published as «Mayada, Daughter of Iraq» in 1995; this Portuguese edition translated by Catarina Lima belongs to the Documentos collection of Edições Asa.
Recommended for readers of memoirs, biographies and testimonies about repression in Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
Jean P. Sasson is an American writer whose work mainly centers around women in the Middle East.
