Zainab Salbi Biography

Zainab Salbi describes growing up in Saddam Hussein's close circle in her novel Hidden in Plain Sight: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam Hussein. Her father was Saddam's personal pilot. She fled Iraq for an arranged marriage in the United States, which swiftly devolved into yet another type of oppression. When she learned of the rape and detention camps in Bosnia in 1993, she felt she couldn't stay silent any longer. Salbi formed Women for Women International to assist women who are victims of conflict in whatever way, from those who have been physically damaged to those who are impoverished as a result of war and turmoil. WFWI empowers women to break the cycle of abuse by providing financial and emotional support, job-skills training, and rights education. She offers firsthand accounts of women's experiences in battle in her latest book, The Other Side of War. War is not a computer-generated missile striking a computerized map, she writes. As it explodes in our faces, war is the color of the ground, the sound of children pleading, the smell of smoke, and the feeling of panic. Women who have survived the war are more than just a single picture on television; they are the glue that ties families and countries together. Perhaps we will be more humble in our talks about wars if we comprehend women and the other side of battle... perhaps it is time to listen to women's side of history. Salbi's group, above all, provides women a voice.

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