There she was thrown into a cell with 17 'shadow women'. Until one morning in August 1999 she was summarily arrested and dragged to the notorious Baladiyat Prison, falsely accused of printing anti-government propaganda. When Saddam Hussein and his Ba'ath party seized power, and instituted his reign of terror, Mayada found herself alone in Baghdad, a divorced parent of two children, earning a meagre living printing brochures. Her uncle was Prime Minister for nearly forty years, her mother an important politician.
The other is acclaimed as the first true Arab nationalist.
One grandfather fought alongside Lawrence of Arabia. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo Mayada was born into a powerful Iraqi family.
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