Zainab Salbi – författare

Zainab Salbi was eleven years old when her father was chosen to be Saddam Hussein''s personal pilot and her family''s life was grafted onto his. Her mother, the beautiful Alia, taught her daughter the skills she needed to survive. A plastic smile. Saying yes. Burying in boxes in her mind the horrors she glimpsed around her. "Learn to erase your memories," she instructed. "He can read eyes."

In this richly visual memoir, Salbi describes tyranny as she saw it - through the eyes of a privileged child, a rebellious teenager, a violated wife, and ultimately a public figure fighting to overcome the skill that once kept her alive: silence.

Between Two Worlds is a riveting quest for truth that deepens our understanding of the universal themes of power, fear, sexual subjugation, and the question one generation asks the one before it: How could you have let this happen to us?

Bestselling author Zainab Salbi takes an in-depth look at what happens when we address the ghosts of our past and align with our core values.How do we transform our collective fear and deep divisions among us into meaningful change? In her book, "Freedom is an Internal Task," Zainab Salbi, a feminist writer and television personality, shares with us how to look into our inner world to change our outer world. After working for years as a general manager and a change maker, Salbi realized that she had to confront the ghosts of her past first before beginning to confront the ghosts of the world. Salbi shares with us key moments from her private life, and does not hide anything from us. She also shares amazing and moving stories she has encountered around the world. Through it, we learn that we must heal contradictions in our values, actions, and goals if we want to make real change.Through Salbi''s exciting journey to freedom, readers learn how they can go on to create the world they want. Salbi says: "Conflicts outside will continue as long as they exist within us." "If we want to change the world; We have to start with ourselves. This is the path to freedom."

Als Tochter von Saddam Husseins Privatpilot erlebt Zainab Salbi als Jugendliche hautnah mit, was Diktatur bedeutet. Auf Drängen ihrer Mutter heiratet sie mit 19, emigriert in die USA und macht sich als Menschenrechtsaktivistin einen Namen. Doch während sie sich weltweit für Frauen in Kriegsgebieten einsetzt, gerät ihr eigenes Leben aus den Fugen, als sie erkennt, dass sich ihre eigenen Schatten nicht von selbst auflösen. In diesem Buch erzählt sie die fesselnde Geschichte ihres Heilungswegs: »Wenn wir die Welt verändern wollen, müssen wir bei uns selbst anfangen. Das ist der Weg zur Freiheit.«