Zainab Salbi

Author of Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam

13 Works 392 Members 8 Reviews 1 Favorited

About the Author

Zainab Salbi is the founder and president of Women for Women International, a nonprofit organization providing women survivors of war with resources to move from crisis to stability.

Includes the names: Zainab Salbi, Zainab Becklund Salbi, Laurie

Works by Zainab Salbi

The Other Side of War: Women's Stories of Survival and Hope (2006) 68 copies

De gouden kooi (2007) 21 copies

Freedom Is an Inside Job: Owning Our Darkness and Our Light to Heal Ourselves and the World (2018) 14 copies

If You Knew Me You Would Care (2013) 11 copies

Hidden in Plain Sight: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam (2005) 9 copies

dividida 2 copies

The Reckoning (2018) 1 copy

The Accuser and the Accused (2018) 1 copy

Masculinity in Crisis? (2018) 1 copy

The Culture of Complicity (2018) 1 copy

Is Patriarchy on Its Way Out? (2018) 1 copy

Die wahre Freiheit liegt in dir: Heile dich selbst und dann die Welt (German Edition) 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Birthdate: 1969
Gender: female
Nationality: Iraq (birth)
USA (resident)
Birthplace: Baghdad, Iraq
Places of residence: Baghdad, Iraq
Washington, D.C., USA
Education: George Mason University (BA)
London School of Economics (MS)
Occupations: Activist
Organizations: Women for the World
Women for Women International
Awards and honors: Trailblazer Award (2005) (Forbes Magazine)

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Other Side of War, The by Zainab Salbi

Women's stories of survival & hope

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jhawn | Jul 31, 2017 |

Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up… by Zainab Salbi

Expected to read a horror story about life under the penetrating gaze of Saddam Hussein, which I received. Did not expect that the end of the story would be about the plans to bring hope to women who have survived the rape camps of modern warfare. Reading about putting together an intelligent response to mass sexual atrocity was like finding a beautiful rose growing on a junk heap.

I am left admiring the author's courage even more, now that I know what she has done with her life after surviving life with "Amo."… (more)

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KaterinaBead | 6 other reviews | Aug 27, 2013 |

Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing up… by Zainab Salbi

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Bibliodidact | 6 other reviews | May 4, 2013 |

Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up… by Zainab Salbi

Memoir of a woman whose family was close to Saddam Hussein and in terror of crossing him. She ultimately moved to the US and founded an organization for the support of women who are victims of abuse. Some characters in her story reminded me of those in "The House of Sand and Fog."

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ammurphy | 6 other reviews | Nov 17, 2009 |

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