Between Two Worlds : Escape from Tyranny -

Zainab Salbi was eleven years old when her father was chosen to serve as Saddam Hussein's personal pilot, her family often forced to spend weekends with Saddam where he watched their every move. As a palace insider, Zainab offers a singular glimpse of what it is like to come of age under a dictator and provides an intimate portrait of the man she was taught to call "uncle."

A native of Iraq who arrived in the United States at the age of twenty, Zainab Salbi is the founder and president of Women for Women International, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing women of war and civil unrest with the resources to become self-sufficient citizens and promote peace.

Laurie Becklund is an award-winning Los Angeles journalist and author. This is her third collaboration. A former Los Angeles Times,/I> reporter, she wrote the first story about Salbi in 1991, when Salbi was a young woman stranded in America by the Gulf War.

Prologue

vii

The Abbasid Coin

1

(20)

Strings

21

(34)

After Pig's Island

55

(16)

The Pilot's Daughter

71

(22)

Learning to Cry with Ducks

93

(24)

Boxes

117

(20)

A White Horse

137

(34)

Collateral Damage

171

(28)

Becoming Zainab

199

(36)

Setting Me Free

235

(30)

The Middle Fish

265

(23)

Afterword

288

(4)

Collaborator's Note

292

(2)

Reader's Guide

294

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Between Two Worlds : Escape from Tyranny - Growing up in the Shadow of Saddam

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