Disfigured - Softcover

Al-Baz, Rania

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844370755 ISBN 13: 9781844370757

Publisher: Arris Publishing Ltd

Synopsis

For over six years, Rania Al-Baz was the smiling face of a family programme on Saudi television. She was a young, beautiful Saudi TV news anchor - the first woman to have such a job - when her abusive husband beat her into a coma and left her for dead. She later underwent thirteen operations to reconstruct her face. When she agreed to make horrifying pictures of her ravaged face public, her story sparked general criticism of Saudi culture. A month later, the first Saudi research into domestic violence began and King Saud University in Riyadh. But Rania's memoir is not simply the story of the violence she suffered; nor is it a tale of revenge. She denounces neither Islam nor the traditions of her country, nor even her former husband - only his violence. It is this generosity of spirit that carries her story - about her Saudi Arabian girlhood and adolescence, her disastrous first marriage, her public life as a TV journalist, her life as a mother, and her evolution into an activist on behalf of women.

About this title

About the Author:

Rania al-Baz had become one of the best known and best loved faces in her home country of Saudi Arabia. She was the presenter of a program called The Kingdom this Morning on state-owned television. She lives in Saudi Arabia. Catherine Spencer works as a French translator and specializes in nonfiction about the Arab world. She lives in Marrakesh, Morocco.

Review:

"I don't feel like I'm a hero... I feel that no woman should be a victim... in any way. A woman should have the ability to choose her own destiny." -- Rania al-Baz

About this edition

• Publisher: Arris Publishing Ltd
• ISBN 10: 1844370755
• ISBN 13: 9781844370757
• Binding: Paperback