When You Are A Peshmerga Wife…
Whitney Purdum
June 1, 2011
Jean Sasson’s Love in a Torn Land, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007, explores the hardships and terror that Iraqi Kurds faced under Saddam Hussein’s Baathist regime. The biographical story revolves around Joanna al-Askari Hussain, a young woman born of an Arab father and a Kurdish mother. Despite her upbringing in Baghdad, Joanna’s Kurdish roots and her love of Kurdish define her life’s course. From a young age, Joanna is determined to leave her family in Baghdad to become a loyal wife to a Peshmerga – a Kurdish freedom fighter. In her early twenties, her dream turns into reality; Joanna falls in love with a Peshmerga and abandons her life of comfort in Baghdad to live with him in the rugged mountains of Kurdistan, the battleground between the Iraqi government and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.
While Sasson’s writing explores the inner-workings of a young woman’s mind, it also details the political atmosphere of Iraq during the nine-year long Iran-Iraq war, and the role of Iraqi Kurds in this conflict. The tragedies that Joanna al-Askari witnessed are representative of what a majority of Iraqi Kurds faced during the Saddam era. Sasson chronicles the day-to-day social discrimination that Kurds faced, as well as the Baathists’ brutal political and military campaigns that intended to wipe out the Kurdish population. This book is a tribute to the personal sacrifices Kurds have made for the pursuit of their freedom. It will undoubtedly inspire awe and inspiration from readers of all ages.
3 Responses to “When You Are A Peshmerga Wife…”
Thank you, Whitney. I believe that the story of the Kurds is one of the most fascinating and dramatic of any peoples from World War I until the present time. And, Joanna’s true life story captured the special qualities of the Kurds, as well as their epic struggles. Thanks for reminding people about this very important story. Jean Sasson
Jean, thank you.
Information. The story of Mayada Al Askari the book “MAYADA DAUGHTER OF IRAQ” and that of Mayada’s relative Joanna Al Askari Hussains reported in “LOVE IN A TORN LAND” are both written by american hoax author JEAN P. SASSON who’s first ever book was the now infamous propaganda book THE RAPE OF KUWAIT which was not only fully financed and promoted by the governent of Kuwait, but Sasson got additionally financially handsomely rewarded by the Kuwaiti Ambassador Shaikh Saud in Washington DC himself for writing lies about athrocities the Iraqies are supposed to have committed in Kuwait during occupation in the first Gulf war DESERTSTORM. And that’s the true story how “THE RAPE OF KUWAT” became a best seller and made Jean P. Sasson a best seller author in the process. And having learned how easy it was to make a lot of money from writin lies and get away with it, Jean Sasson has been writing book’s of lies ever since.
What followed The Rape Of Kuwait lie was to be another, the book called hoax “PRINCESS” the Princess Trilogy which made Jean Sasson a worldwide best seller author. For this project Jean Sasson STOLE another European authors autobiographie of her life in Kuwait and turned it round into a Saudi Arabian princesses autobiagraphie.
The whole story of this theft is now available in a book “THE PHONEY PRINCESS” which was written by Sasson’s copyright victim Friederike Monika Pavlik.