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Mayada, daughter of iraq ebook by jean sasson 9781101119181. One year later, jean learned that mayada had been taken without the knowledge of her family from the tiny print shop that she owned, and imprisoned in the notorious baladiyat prisonheadquarters of saddam husseins infamous secret police. Without any knowledge of their past lives, or even their original names, the four scour the forest. When saddam hussein seized power, mayada found herself alone in baghdad, a divorced parent, earning a meagre living, until one morning when she was dragged to the notorious baladiyat prison, falsely accused of printing antigovernment propaganda and thrown into a cell with seventeen shadow women.
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