SILC presents: Between Two Worlds
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Posted by Web Team, October 07, 2005
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Simmons Institute for Leadership and Change presents:
Center for New Words
ZAINAB SALBI
Between Two Worlds
Monday, October 17, 2005 at 7:00pm
Linda K. Paresky Conference Center
Zainab Salbi was eleven when her father was chosen to serve as Saddam Hussein’s personal pilot. Her mother eventually sent Zainab to America for an arranged marriage, to spare her from Saddam’s growing affection, but the marriage turned out to be another world of tyranny and abuse. Zainab started over. She forged a new identity as a champion of female victims of war, dedicating her life to speaking out on behalf of oppressed women around the world. In this intimate portrait, she reveals the tyrant through the eyes of a child, a secretly rebellious teenager, an abused wife, and ultimately a professional woman coming to terms with the horror of secrets her mother revealed only on her deathbed.
