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Author Souad.

Title Burned alive : a victim of the law of men / Souad, in collaboration with Marie-Therese Cuny
Published New York : Warner Books, [2004]
©2004

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 MELB  362.8292092 Sou/Baa  AVAILABLE
Description 225 pages ; 24 cm
Contents I was in flames -- Memory -- Hanan? -- The green tomato -- The bride's blood -- Assad -- The secret -- The last meeting -- The fire -- Dying -- Jacqueline -- Souad is going to die -- Switzerland (Souad) -- Marouan -- All that is missing -- Surviving witness -- Jacqueline -- My son -- To build a house
Summary "When Souad was seventeen she fell in love. In her West Bank village, as in so many other villages, sex before marriage is considered a grave dishonor to one's family and is punishable by death. This was her crime. Her brother-in-law was given the task of meting out her punishment. One morning while Souad was washing the family's clothes, he poured gasoline over her and set her on fire." "In the eyes of the community he was a hero. An execution for a "crime of honor" is a duty, and Souad's brother-in-law had the full support of her parents."
"Miraculously she survived, rescued by women of her village, who put out the flames and took her to a local hospital. Horribly burned over ninety percent of her body and still denounced by her family - who strived to "finish the job" even as she lay suffering in the clinic - Souad was able to receive the care she needed only after the intervention of a European aid worker. Now in permanent exile from her homeland, she has decided to tell her story and reveal the barbarity of a practice that continues to this day." "More than five thousand honor killings are reported every year; many more go unreported. Burned Alive is both the testimony of one young woman's resolve to survive and build a new life - and a call to action to end a heinous tradition."--BOOK JACKET
Notes Translated by Judith Armbruster
Subject Souad.
Honor killings -- Palestine -- Case studies.
Abused women -- Palestine -- Biography.
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Case studies.
Author Cuny, Marie-Thérèse.
LC no. 2003027194
ISBN 0446533467
Other Titles Brûlée vive. English