The women rally around each other to share their unbelievable stories and in so doing gain the strength to survive. But life can shift quickly in Iraq and Mayada finds herself thrown into a small cell with seventeen other women. Her uncle was Prime Minister of Iraq for nearly forty years her mother, an important government official.įrom personal meetings with Saddam Hussein and Chemical Ali to raising two small children as a single mother, Mayadas life was at once privileged, yet carefully balanced. The other was the first true Arab nationalist (admired greatly by Saddam Hussein).
One grandfather fought alongside Lawrence of Arabia. Her family was one of the most distinguished and honored families in Iraq. Mayadas story both past and present is truly incredible. One year later, Jean learned that Mayada had been taken without the knowledge of her family from the tiny print shop that she owned, and imprisoned in the notorious Baladiyat Prisonheadquarters of Saddam Husseins infamous secret police. Jean Sasson met Mayada Al-Askari on a trip to Baghdad in 1998.
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