This is an auction for BURNED ALIVE: A VICTIM OF THE LAW OF MEN by Souad.

"When she was 18, her brother-in-law poured gasoline on her and set her aflame. She was meant to die because she was pregnant and unmarried, bringing disgrace to her parents. But she survived, and now, 25 years later, Souad bears witness to the horror of honor crimes that kill thousands of women every year in countries across the world. She begins with an account of what it was like to grow up female in a remote Palestinian village in the Occupied Territory. "Being born a girl was a curse." Unlike her brother, she never went to school. Her father beat her daily. She worked as a shepherd, a consenting slave. She barely glimpsed the city, where women were free to work and move around. Her rescuer was Jacqueline, a European aid worker, who was in the Middle East to care for children in distress and who arranged for the badly burned young woman to be flown to Switzerland, where she and her newborn baby received medical care and support. Today Souad is somewhere in Europe, married with three children, her testimony still anonymous for her protection. Occasional chapters by Jacqueline fill in the wider context, but it's the immediacy of the shocking first-person narrative that drives home the statistics. This book is a call to action."

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Very favourable reviews on Amazon.com.

Large format (trade) paperback 2004.

210 pages.

Good condition.

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