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Mayada: Daughter Of Iraq (one Woman's Survival In Saddam Hussein's Torture Jail)
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Mayada: Daughter Of Iraq (one Woman's Survival In Saddam Hussein's Torture Jail)
By
Jean Sasson
Mayada Al- Askari was born into a powerful Iraqi family. One grandfather fought alongside Lawrence of Arabia, the other is acclaimed as the first Arab nationalist. When Saddam Hussein and his Ba’ath party seized power, Mayada little imagined the devastation that it would wreak upon her life. But soon she found herself alone in Baghdad under Saddam’s reign of terror, a divorce mother of two, earning a meager living printing brochures- until the morning in 1999 when she was summarily arrested by Saddam’s secret police and dragged to the notorious Baladiyat Prison, accused of printing anti- government propaganda.
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