by Jean P. Sasson · Círculo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467209341
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«Mayada, hija de Irak» is the autobiographical account by Jean P. Sasson, published by Círculo De Lectores in hardcover (328 pages, in Spanish).
Mayada Al-Askari, an Iraqi woman from a well-off family, was imprisoned by Saddam Hussein's regime. Jean P. Sasson reconstructs her testimony and that of other prisoners: political repression, pain and the struggle for freedom, in a close-up portrait of life in Iraq and of female resistance.
Translation by Verónica Canales Medina. The English original, «Mayada, Daughter of Iraq», was published in 1995.
For readers of memoirs and Middle Eastern history, with an interest in testimonies of political repression and the situation of women in Iraq.
Jean P. Sasson is an American writer whose work mainly centers around women in the Middle East.
